ancestors

A fossil first: Scientists find 1.5-million-year-old footprints of two different species of human ancestors at same spot

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday…

1 year ago

Killer instinct drove evolution of mammals’ predatory ancestors

The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers…

2 years ago