One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

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

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

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

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

Evolution down the Path Less Traveled," an exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston, eyes the advantages of moving slowly.

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

In fact, the footprints indicate these two species were walking along the lakeshore within hours or days of each other, ...

What led humans on the unique path of cultural development? And can we do anything useful with newly reconstructed histories ...

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