This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

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

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

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

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

Scientists uncover fossils suggesting Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a 7-million-year-old ancestor, could walk upright. Could this tiny bipedal ape-like hominin rewrite what we know about the earliest ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

A landmark study of an ancient thigh bone confirms when our earliest ancestors stood upright. This discovery proves that the ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

From Doom and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to Metropolis, Hollywood hasn’t predicted the most stable of years ahead ...