The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

This tiny bump on an ancient thigh bone has become a big deal for anyone trying to pin down when the human story truly began.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Scientists may have just pushed back the timeline for when our ancestors first started walking upright. A new study suggests ...

One of the biggest unanswered questions in human evolution is when our ancestors first stood upright and began walking on two ...

A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.

The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs—a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this atypical ...

A landmark study of an ancient thigh bone confirms when our earliest ancestors stood upright. This discovery proves that the ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

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 ...

The chimp with the most human-like gait and body type walked upright more efficiently than he knuckle-walked a finding that study co-author Herman Pontzer calls a snapshot of how this evolution may ...