One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...
For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...
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New fossil analysis suggests this seven-million-year-old primate walked on two legs, potentially making it the oldest known human ancestor
In the early 2000s, researchers uncovered primate bones that were approximately seven million years old in Chad’s Djurab ...
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The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...
New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.
In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...
The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...
In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...
(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...
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