One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going.

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

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

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

First-ever dual-hominid-species footprints discovered with a combination of fame and fortuities.

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...