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

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

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

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 ...

In a paper published today, Nov. 28, in the journal Science, an international team of researchers from the U.S., Kenya and the UK provide the first direct evidence of two different ancient human ...

Two sets of fossilized footprints from early human species were made within a few hours of each other about 1.5 million years ...

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived ...

Fossilised footprints reveal members of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei crossed paths on a stretch of mud at the same ...

The researchers believe the footprints were made within hours of each other on the shores of an ancient lake in present-day ...