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 ...

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

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

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

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

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

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 ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Little Foot’ does not fit into any known species, prompting the suggestion that an as-yet unidentified human ancestor may ...

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...