Study provides first evidence of different bipedalism styles on same footprint surface, attributed to both species.

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

Maybe they helped each other. Maybe they ran from each other. Maybe they ignored each other. It’s long been known that ...

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

An international team of researchers said Thursday that they had found two sets of hominin footprints that were made about ...

Fifty years ago, Donald Johanson found "Lucy," a 3.2 million-year-old fossil. She changed the story of human evolution.

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

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

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

Muddy footprints found beside Lake Turkana, Kenya reveal two ancient hominin species were once neighbors 1.5 million years ...

and hominins are a group that consists of all of humanity’s immediate ancestors. Modern-day humans, also known as Homo sapiens, evolved from these older lineages of hominins, and scientists are ...