Footprints from 1.5mil years ago made by two different species of human ancestors were made within hours on the same spot—a ...

The discovery offers new insight into human evolution, particularly between the two early human species, known as hominins — a term for a subdivision of hominids. Hominins are all organisms within the ...

More than a million years ago, on a warm and vibrant African savanna near Lake Turkana in what is now Kenya, two entirely ...

Maybe they helped each other. Maybe they ran from each other. Maybe they ignored each other. It’s long been known that multiple species of ancient humans lived in the same hot, lush lakeshore area of ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

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

In the new study, researchers compared digital 3-D models of ancient hominid footprints and trackways to those made by people today — including Kenyan herders who rarely or never wear shoes — ...

First-ever dual-hominid-species footprints discovered with a combination of fame and fortuities.

Newly discovered footprints show that at least two hominid species were walking through the muddy submerged edge of a lake in Kenya's Turkana Basin at ...

From the time hominids walked erect, they relied on routines to endure. As psychologist Jim Taylor explained, feelings of ...