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

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

An international team of researchers said Thursday that they had found two sets of hominin footprints that were made about ...

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

Two species of ancient humans walked beside each other 1.5 million years ago, fossil footprints have revealed.

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

A University of Hawaiʻi researcher says he may have found a new human species called Homo juluensis, which includes ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Researchers believe that the extinct human species lived in small groups, which might have made them susceptible to ...

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

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and ...

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