In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

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

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae dating back to 773,000 years ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...

Neanderthals painted on cave walls in Spain 65,000 years ago – tens of thousands of years before modern humans arrived, say researchers ...

In the recent study on pain, researchers investigated three variations in the SCN9A gene, and reported greater pain ...

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

For years, researchers analyzing traumatic injuries found on Neanderthal fossils believed they had lived dangerous, violent lives. But a new study reveals that early modern humans and Neanderthals ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...