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.

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

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 ...

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

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

A NEW species of human with bigger brains and heads has been unearthed, claim Chinese archaeologists. Researchers alleged ...

It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, ...

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

Scientists make their case for classifying an extinct group that lived in northern China until 120,000 years ago as a ...

Despite their miniature brains, the ancient "Hobbits" do appear to have made stone tools. Utensils produced by the ...