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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

A study by an international team reveals 1.5-million-year-old footprints from Koobi Fora, Kenya, showing two distinct ...

As Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei – a direct ancestor and an ancestral relative of modern humans, respectively – lived ...

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 ...

About 1.5 million years ago, two different species of early man likely came within hours of passing each other on the shores ...

And while it’s true that the fossil record does suggest that the two ancient human relatives may have overlapped, the newly ...