Moroccan Dig Site Produces A Very Old Fossil And Now It’s One Of The Most Valuable Sources Of Early Dinosaur Information. Story by Michael Levanduski • 34m. F ossils are rare, ...

The Moroccan fossils, found in what was a cave setting, represented three adults, one adolescent and one child roughly age 8, thought to have lived a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

The fossils were discovered in the Tatelt Formation in Morocco. This formation hosts the youngest known record of xandarellids, extending their stratigraphic range by approximately 10 million years.

Morocco is home to the world’s oldest Cerapodan dinosaurs, a group of plant-eating dinosaurs, a new study has revealed. Fossils unearthed in Morocco’s El Mers III Formation, a geological ...

Nevertheless, rare fossils are available to buy in bazars across Morocco's southeast, and even in the tourist hotspot of Marrakech. Many end up in museums in Europe and North America.

RABAT, Morocco. Morocco on Friday announced it has gotten back three fossil remains of three different species, dated back to 250 million years ago, from the US.

Fossils and DNA evidence have led scientists to conclude that the first members of our species evolved in eastern Africa about 200,000 years ago. But a new discovery suggests a more complex story.

Fossilized remains found in Morocco might belong to our 300,000-year-old ancestors. The skulls and bones could represent the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens, the human species to which we ...

NEW YORK — How long has our species been around? New fossils from Morocco push the evidence back by about 100,000 years. The bones, about 300,000 years old, were unearthed thousands of miles ...

The year was 1961. A barite mining operation at the Jebel Irhoud massif in Morocco, some 100 kilometers west of Marrakech, turned up a fossil human skull. Subsequent excavation uncovered more ...

Corals are ideal for a then-and-now comparison, because their hard skeletons leave a permanent, time-stamped fossil record. Meanwhile, the 839 corals on the "red list" of threatened species, ...