Scientists previously knew from fossil remains that these two extinct branches of the human evolutionary tree — called Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei — lived about the same time in the ...

Biggest Denisovan fossil yet spills ancient human’s ... and the more distant relative Paranthropus boisei. The two individuals walked through the lake area within hours or days of each other ...

About 1.5 million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy ...

Newly discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints reveal how two extinct human species crossed paths within hours of each ...

But others were made by members of the species Paranthropus boisei—an upright hominin ... “Short of a time machine,” she says, “fossil footprints are the next best way to capture a ...

A series of preserved footprints have revealed the co-existence of two ancient human species. The fossils provide the first physical confirmation that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived ...

These tracks that once intersected have turned into fossils, which researchers have now found at a site known as Koobi Fora. This is the first proof that Paranthropus boisei and Homo erectus lived ...

A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a ...

Analysis indicated one set of footprints belonged to Homo erectus, an ancestor to modern humans, while the other were made by Paranthropus boisei ... resolution of these fossils, it's often ...

A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and ...