Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...