A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them ...

A team of researchers working in a Moroccan cave system has recovered early hominin fossils dated to roughly 773,000 years ago, and the bones carry physical traits that place them near the base of the ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he cracked open a story scientists thought they already knew. The cranium from ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...

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New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.

Fresh dating of Homo Erectus fossils suggests ancient humans reached East Asia far earlier than once believed.