ARUSHA: THE wind sweeps across jagged cliffs and deep ravines at Olduvai Gorge, carrying whispers of footsteps that walked ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.

One eye-catching detail is the researchers’ estimate that the bone likely belonged to a small female, about 24 kg, and nicknamed “Diva.” Spassov noted the fossil seems to sit somewhere between older, ...

How many stories are buried just beneath our feet?

A team of scientists have found a set of ancient symbols and writing in a cave that has forever altered our understanding of when we first began to write.

But there was one problem: the skull had been crushed and distorted over time. Its true shape had been hidden by pressure, age, and damage. Some features ...

After an ancient mass extinction wiped out ocean life, what came next? A quarry in China just answered that question.

Invisible for 115,000 years, these chilling "ghost fossils" just emerged from the burning sands of the Nefud Desert to ...

In 2016 and 2017 alone, there were three different discoveries, all reported to be the largest dinosaur footprint ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A precisely dated Moroccan cave sequence places hominin jaws and teeth at 773,000 years old, near a key split in our lineage.

Researchers recently unveiled proof that Romans used a surprising ingredient in their medical treatments — and it's far from sanitary. The research focuses on a vessel that was unearthed in Pergamon, ...

RABAT — A newly announced fossil discovery is further cementing Morocco’s central place in the prehistory of humanity. On Jan. 7, Moroccan and international researchers revealed the unearthing of ...