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

The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

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

All good things must come to an end. Sadly, Homo sapiens’ time on Earth is no exception. And someone would surely take our ...

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at ...

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

Neanderthals tended to bury their dead in caves, while early modern humans buried their dead in the fetal position, new ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

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

They were searching for human fossils in sediments dating back 1.5 million years, but instead they found the footprint of a ...

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