A new study of ancient footprints is the first ever to show that our early ancestors coexisted in a shared space.

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

The remains of at least 16 individuals, including children, have been discovered in a cave in eastern China, and are believed ...

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

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

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

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

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

(THE CONVERSATION) Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same – ...

Recent research challenges the theory that long childhood in humans is due to large brain sizes. Instead, analysis of early ...

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

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...