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

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

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

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

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

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

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 ...

“ Sahelanthropus tchadensis was essentially a bipedal ape that possessed a chimpanzee-sized brain and likely spent a ...