A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely thought, a new study of fossil teeth suggests. Scientists investigated fossils excavated from the medieval ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast Asia, Live Science reported, citing four separate studies published last ...

A roughly 1.8 million-year-old Homo erectus jawbone discovered in the Republic of Georgia may be evidence of one of the earliest human groups to live outside Africa. The discovery, announced July 31 ...

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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.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens ...

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