A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

This tiny bump on an ancient thigh bone has become a big deal for anyone trying to pin down when the human story truly began.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids.

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...