Researcher Christopher J. Bae identified Homo juluensis, a new human species that coexisted with Denisovans in Asia. A University of Hawaiʻi researcher may have identified a new human species, Homo ...

Research on ancient footprints in Kenya demonstrates coexistence of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei 1.5 million years ...

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

The track-making species Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei are on two different branches of the hominin family tree. Smithsonian Human Origins Program, modified by author from original artwork ...

and elephants — but hominin tracks are surprisingly common for a land-based species. What were they doing, returning again and again to this habitat when other primates, such as baboons ...

Fossilized footprints reveal two extinct hominin species living side by side 1.5 million years ago Story by Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Kevin Hatala, Purity Kiura • 5d ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life before the Ice Age.

In the heat of an African savanna 1.5 million years ago, two distinct hominin species appear to have walked the same grounds. These tracks, preserved in sediments near the present-day Lake Turkana in ...

Subscribe now!) More than a million years ago, on the shores of what would become Lake Turkana one day in modern-day Kenya, two distinct hominin species shared a landscape teeming with life.

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience research and mental health treatment.

"Although we started this project several years ago, we did not expect being able to propose a new hominin (human ancestor) species and then to be able to organize the hominin fossils from Asia ...