Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

We've known for some time now that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, also known as archaic humans, interbred before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago. In fact, in some ways, Neanderthals ...

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going.

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

The research included professors Kevin Hatala from Chatham U. in Pittsburgh and Craig Feibel of Rutgers and showed two human ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...