A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed into soft mud preserved the unexpected and extraordinary moment, ...

The footprints were left in the mud by two different species “within a matter of hours, or at most days,” a co-author of the ...

Maybe they helped each other. Maybe they ran from each other. Maybe they ignored each other. It’s long been known that multiple species of ancient humans lived in the same hot, lush lakeshore area of ...

Archaeologists working in Kenya found the footprints of two distinct human ancestors preserved in the fossilized mud of an ancient lake — walking side by side.

Recent advancements and discoveries in science highlight concerns over climate-proofing potatoes in China, the coexistence of ...

A groundbreaking discovery in paleoanthropology has uncovered evidence that Homo erectus, one of our earliest human ancestors ...

Muddy footprints found beside Lake Turkana, Kenya reveal two ancient hominin species were once neighbors 1.5 million years ...

A new study of ancient footprints is the first ever to show that our early ancestors coexisted in a shared space.

The discovery offers new insight into human evolution, particularly between the two early human species, known as hominins — a term for a subdivision of hominids. Hominins are all organisms within the ...