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

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

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

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

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

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

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

Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

Human history features a pivotal moment when four-legged beings stood upright on two legs. Scholars regard this shift as the ...