An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint in the Americas. The discovery suggests that humans may have reached South ...

Facial bone fragments from Sima del Elefante in Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, dated to about 1.4 million years ago, represent ...

Our story may not begin in Africa after all.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations have been underway since 1994 in the Hominid Cave at the Thomas Quarry I, south-west of the city of Casablanca in ...

Two skulls found in a Grecian cave paint a surprising portrait of who lived there hundreds of thousands of years ago. One fragmentary skull has been dated to 210,000 years ago, and researchers believe ...

Human ancestors were all hominins, but not every species that came before us belonged to the Homo (human) genus. The earliest members of that particular group have long been thought to be Homo habilis ...

The fossil found in Misliya cave. Details of the teeth — their shapes and sizes relative to each other — helped scientists confirm that this belongs to Homo sapiens. Archaeologists in Israel have ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...