Fossilized human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula are forcing researchers to redraw the map of our species’ early journeys. Imprinted in what was once a lakeshore and is now desert, these tracks ...

ARUSHA: THE wind sweeps across jagged cliffs and deep ravines at Olduvai Gorge, carrying whispers of footsteps that walked ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...

Most scientists believe ancient migration came by way of a now-submerged land bridge that connected Asia to Alaska. Based on various evidence — including stone tools, fossil bones and genetic analysis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long thumb and straight fingers would have allowed Paranthropus boisei to form a powerful grip, similar to how modern humans ...

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 ...

For years, the Turkana Boy has placed Kenya on the world map as a key site in the story of human evolution. Now, there is even more evidence supporting Kenya as a cradle of humankind. The recent ...

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age. Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.