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

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

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

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

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 ...

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 seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

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 ...