Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct ...

On a Norfolk shoreline, fragile human footprints briefly appeared before the sea erased them. Archaeologists captured the ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

An aerial view shows a research team standing alongside the fossil footprint trackway at the excavation site on the eastern side of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, 2022. Credit: Louise Leakey via AP ...

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

Humans are walkers, and we're really good at it. Other creatures can walk on two legs - chimpanzees, for example, walk with bent knees and bent hips, kind of like Groucho Marx - but no animal walks ...

Fossilized footprints suggest human presence in the Americas far earlier than previously believed. The shimmering dunes of White Sands National Park harbor an extraordinary secret: fossilized human ...

In May 2020, a research team announced the exciting results of their study of the largest fossil human footprint site in Africa: Engare Sero, Tanzania. With nearly 400 footprints, these fossilized ...

Researchers say recently discovered teeth come from a previously undiscovered species of Australopithecus, adding to our understanding of human evolution. Maybe you've seen the T-shirts or the mugs, ...

The shimmering dunes of White Sands National Park harbor an extraordinary secret: fossilized human footprints that suggest human presence in the Americas as much as 10,000 years earlier than ...