A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

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

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution. The cave, ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Newly sequenced Native genomes showcase a wealth of surprises, from previously unknown populations to unique high-altitude adaptations.

Critical historians like William Appleman Williams played a key role in highlighting the US’s imperial record in Latin ...

That’s exactly what happens when you first lay eyes on the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It’s not every day you find a six-story concrete castle rising from the landscape of a charming ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

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

With their bony frills and horned faces, ceratopsian dinosaurs are among the most recognizable animals of the prehistoric ...