Pictured above is a fossil footprint believed to have been created by a hominin species known as Paranthropus boisei, one of 12 such footprints unearthed in Kenya that date back 1.5 million years.

A stunning discovery of fossilized footprints pressed into soft mud preserved the unexpected and extraordinary moment, suggesting that the two distinct types of hominin were able to live as ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An aerial view shows a research team standing alongside the fossil footprint trackway at the excavation site ...

Around 1.5 million years ago, four walkers traversed the muddy shore of a lake, leaving footprints. If they did not cross paths, they would have missed each other narrowly — probably by hours if ...

Follow scientists as they gather clues to understanding what life was like for the Field Museum’s titanosaur, Máximo. Titanosaur 3D uses vividly photorealistic animation to imagine what these ...

Instead of going extinct, titanosaurs flourished long after their more famous cousins vanished. Not only were they large and in charge on all seven continents, they held their own amid the newly ...

Footprints from two different types of ancient primates related to humans—one of them a human ancestor—were likely left within hours of each other along the shoreline of a lake in what is now ...

A trackway of footprints found in northern Kenya is hypothesized to have been created by Paranthropus boisei, a hominin who lived 1.5 million years ago.Credit...Neil T. Roach Supported by By ...

Purity Kiura has received funding from the British Council Cultural Protection Fund for cultural protection and conservation works at the Ileret Footprint site. The project also received funding ...

Two ancient hominid species with slightly different gaits crossed paths in East Africa. Footprints preserved on what was once a muddy lakeshore indicate that the two species, each built to walk in ...

Yet skeletal remains have made that difficult to prove. Now, a team of researchers say they have unearthed 1.5 million-year-old footprints from two sets of hominins, or extinct human ancestors, that ...