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 ...

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 ...

A cast of the skull of Homo floresiensis, one of the hominin species analyzed in the latest study. Credit: The Duckworth Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Perched from atop our ivory tower ...

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 northern Tanzania, footprints helped anthropologists understand that other hominin species also coexisted near the famous human ancestor “Lucy,” a species known as Australopithecus ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

"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 ...

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

Researchers hypothesize that this footprint was made by a member of the hominin species Paranthropus boisei. Kevin Hatala / Chatham University Given the geological age and what early human fossils ...