They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like ...

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex story of connection, identity, and cultural exchange. Between 130,000 and ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

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

A series of 773,000-year-old human remains in Morocco may represent a population of hominins that lived just as our own species split off from our sister lineages, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of ...

Some of their skeletal features resembled those of Homo sapiens, while others were more Neanderthal-like, making the species difficult to classify. The first skeleton discovered at the Skhul burial ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...