Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A handful of fossils (including this mandible) found in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, belong to a previously unknown ancient ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. BBC’s five-part series “Human” premieres Wednesday as part of the PBS series “Nova,” following paleoanthropologist ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

As experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

"This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...