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 ...

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

The classification of one of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever discovered, the skeleton known as Little Foot, has been called into question by an international research team led from La ...

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the ...

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

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

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

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

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

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

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

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