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

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

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

And while it’s true that the fossil record does suggest that the two ancient human relatives may have overlapped, the newly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

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

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