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

Roughly 1.5 million years ago, members of two different species of early humans walked barefoot across a muddy lakeshore in ...

Kimolo Mulwa at the site of the first hominin footprint discovery in 1978. Deep, sand-filled depressions to his left show ...

The footprints are the first clear evidence that the two hominin species shared a habitat, raising questions about whether ...

That ancient lakeshore is part of the Koobi Fora fossil site. The revelation was made by fossilised footprints in the sand in the area that have preserved the unexpected and extraordinary moment.

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at ...

The bones they found in the sand were a clue that something more was buried beneath the surface. When a team of excavators in ...

The only first certain signs that ancient humans were living together came in 2010, when researchers published the complete ...

That excavation revealed one hominin footprint, alongside several other tracks made by large birds. The team decided to rebury the tracks with fine sand until a detailed excavation was possible.