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

The American researcher talks to EL PAÍS about how walking upright was the starting point for our brain enlargement and our ...

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

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

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 ...

Researchers discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints in Kenya's Turkana Basin, revealing coexistence of Paranthropus boisei ...

Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

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 ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

Intersecting paths of muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside 1.5 million years ago suggest two of our early human ...