Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

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 ...

A, one of the world's largest, has turned blue as meltwater covers it over. A-23A is "on the verge of complete disintegration ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

Morocco provide new evidence on human evolution, revealing an African lineage near the origin of Homo sapiens.

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

As AI begins to shape how parents communicate, significant legal and psychological questions arise about whether technology ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...