The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed. Fossilised ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

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

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

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and ...

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

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

Scientists have discovered a new human species that went extinct 200,000 years ago which had large heads and immense teeth.

Modern humans (from around 300,000 years ago) Many people look at human evolution chiefly to explain us, Homo sapiens. But we are the culmination of a long process of evolution—no more than 5% ...