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

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

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.

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

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

Fossilised footprints reveal members of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei crossed paths on a stretch of mud at the same ...

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

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

Scientists in China have unearthed a new human species with remarkable physical characteristics. The remains of 16 ...

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

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