Homo erectus—the direct ancestor of modern humans and the longest-lived hominin—walked the Earth for some two million years. But it didn’t walk alone. The most stunning example of this fact ...

More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient human crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps locking eyes with each other. These early forerunners of Homo sapiens wandered in a ...

In 2021, scientists discovered sets of ancient human footprints—now known as the Koobi Fora footprints—in northwest Kenya. A new study determined that these footprints actually contain ...