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

Learn how detailed 3D analysis uncovered evidence that upright walking emerged near the very start of the human lineage.

A controversial hominid that lived 7 million years ago may have walked on two legs after all, according to a new analysis of ...

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

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

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

“ Sahelanthropus tchadensis was essentially a bipedal ape that possessed a chimpanzee-sized brain and likely spent a ...

In a 2025 study published titled ‘Human monogamy in mammalian context’, Dr Mark Dyble examined the mating behaviour of 35 ...

Happy New Year, Brothers and Sisters, Lovers and Sinners… though frankly, I’m not too happy about it. Old 2024 may have been an Annus Horribilis, but 2025 ...

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

Analysis - Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on the planet is increasing fast, other great ...