Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A handful of fossils (including this mandible) found in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, belong to a previously unknown ancient ...

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Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time, a study found. The prints are thought to belong to the species ...

Lead exposure has been thought to be a uniquely modern phenomenon. Exposure to lead by ancient humans could have given modern humans a survival advantage over other species – more specifically, their ...

A simple stick, shaped by ancient hands roughly 430,000 years ago, is rewriting what researchers thought they knew about ...

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...