Researchers identified Homo juluensis, a potential ancient human species, shedding light on Asia’s evolutionary history.

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 ...

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

A small group of ancient humans discovered in South Asia has the potential to change evolution as most people know it.

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.

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

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 ...

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

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