The oldest ancestor of humans may be a seven-million-year-old ape, which started walking upright two million years earlier than other hominids.

A team of archaeologists say that artifacts found in England push back the earliest known date of hominids making fire some 350,000 years. Learning how to make fire from scratch was a huge leap ...

A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.

A groundbreaking study reveals the only known rock art site where Neanderthals and modern humans created art together.

New analysis of Sahelanthropus fossils suggests upright walking emerged much earlier than once thought. Leg bones, skull anatomy, and environmental context are used to assess whether bipedalism began ...

Scientists have unearthed the remains of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, potentially one of our earliest ancestors. A new analysis ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Carol was a keen gardener, and her and Iain had been dazzled by the grand gardens they had seen on their travels. So they ...

Ardipithecus ramidus is a female who lived 4.4 million years ago. Her skeleton has been described as one of the most important discoveries of the past century. Tim White 2009, From Science Oct. 2 ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...