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

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

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

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

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

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The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

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Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...