Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.

In the arid landscapes of the Afar region in Ethiopia, a series of bones dating back 3.4 million years could shake up what we ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids.