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.

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 ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

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 ...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...