Homo sapiens — modern human beings — are the only hominins that now exist. The footprints suggest two completely different species of hominins may have scavenged for food at the same time on a ...

It’s fun to imagine two different types of early humans exchanging fist bumps, high fives, or fishing tales, there’s no evidence any such encounter took place. Although plenty of evidence shows that ...

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Researchers had long suspected that these two groups of ancient human relatives interbred ... If they come from entirely different species of hominin, heterozygosity would be high.

In 2021, a team led by paleontologist Louise Leakey discovered fossilized footprints on the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, revealing that two different human species, Homo erectus and ...

Preserved footprints in Kenya appear to record two different species of ancient humans walking over the same muddy lakeshore, probably within days of each other. It is one of the most dramatic ...