More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient human crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps locking eyes ...

Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

Were you to time travel to Asia in the late Middle and early Late Pleistocene periods, some 300,000 to 50,000 years ago, you ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a group of dwarf galaxies with distinct features that challenge predictions made by the ...

Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus - shared the same landscape, literally crossing paths. The discovery raises intriguing ...

(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 – ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

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

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

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