Back in 1974, scientists discovered 40 percent of a single hominin skeleton known as Lucy at the Hadar site in Ethiopia, ...

In the river terraces of central China’s Hubei Province, a fossilized skull once dismissed as too crushed for meaningful ...

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, ...

A newly unearthed archaeological site in Tajikistan dating to as far as 150,000 years ago played a key role in the migration and development of early humans and their ancestors to Central Asia, ...

Footprints made by Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus Discovery raises questions about interspecies competition Tracks reveal differing foot anatomy and locomotion Nov 28 (Reuters) - About 1.5 ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. More than 1.5 ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and possibly interacted. A trackway of footprints found in northern Kenya is ...

If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn't be with a Neanderthal; burly and hirsute as they may be.

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, leaving behind intersecting trackways alongside the ...

Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years.