The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

On a dry lakebed in southern New Mexico, a set of ghostly footprints has forced archaeologists to redraw the map of the first Americans. These tracks, pressed into mud by teenagers, children, and ...