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

Fossils from Morocco, dated to 773,000 years ago, reveal an early Homo sapiens lineage, shedding light on Africa’s role in ...

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 ...

In February 2021 Joe Davis, a conservation team leader at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve in Great Britain, stumbled upon something that, at first, seemed like a series of rocks or pipes. Davis, ...

Fossils discovered in a quarry cave in Morocco and dated to roughly 773,000 years ago are offering scientists a rare glimpse into one of the least understood periods of human evolution, when the ...

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The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

The discovery in northern Japan indicates that ocean circulation across the North Pacific was more interconnected than ...

Fossil enthusiast David Thompson has been digging up remnants of the past since he was a kid. “Back in the '40s, '50s, '60s, kids didn’t get taken anyplace,” Thompson said. “I mean, not like days now, ...