A couple of decades ago, anthropologists unearthed an enigmatic ape-like fossil that roamed the Sahara region over 7 million ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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