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

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 mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

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 ...

Around 25 million years ago, an evolutionary split occurred between our ancestors, the precursors of humans and apes, and ...