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

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

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

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Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old—in Ethiopia 50 years ago.

Despite their miniature brains, the ancient "Hobbits" do appear to have made stone tools. Utensils produced by the ...