An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

The fossil found in Misliya cave. Details of the teeth — their shapes and sizes relative to each other — helped scientists confirm that this belongs to Homo sapiens. Archaeologists in Israel have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations have been underway since 1994 in the Hominid Cave at the Thomas Quarry I, south-west of the city of Casablanca in ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human footprint ever unearthed in the Middle East. The remarkably well-preserved footprints, embedded in an ancient mudhole, suggest human presence in the region ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...