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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Sometime between 200,000 and 160,000 years ago, a group of early hominids who lived in what is now northern China were pursuing their next meal. They were skilled, organised hunters, having ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.