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

Scientists argue ape-like Sahelanthropus tchadensis that lived in Africa 7m years ago is best contender but more fossils are needed ...

Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the skull of an individual from the family of early humans, discovered in ...

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 ...

Look in the mirror and the feature that quietly sets you apart from every other species is not your eyes or your opposable ...

The morphological features of ‘Little Foot’ did not align with A. prometheus or A. africanus. Whether it is a new species is ...

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

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

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

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

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