Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

Two sets of fossilized footprints from early human species were made within a few hours of each other about 1.5 million years ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

Newly discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints reveal how two extinct human species crossed paths within hours of each ...

Early humans of Homo juluensis had a large head shape, with measurements notably larger than those of Neanderthals and Homo ...

A 1.5-million-year-old lakebed from Kenya shows two ancient human relatives cohabitating an environment, shaking up our ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

Most of the fossils that are confidently attributed to ... at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Human Origins Program, said it was “mind-blowing” to find footprints ...