Eighty-five fossilized human footprints discovered on a beach in northern Morocco have been dated to around 90,000 years ago.

Across a wind-swept basin in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert, a now-vanished lake once attracted wildlife during a brief climatic ...

The shimmering dunes of White Sands National Park harbor an extraordinary secret: fossilized human footprints that suggest human presence in the Americas as much as 10,000 years earlier than ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.

For years, the Turkana Boy has placed Kenya on the world map as a key site in the story of human evolution. Now, there is even more evidence supporting Kenya as a cradle of humankind. The recent ...