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 ...

Lucy, that starlet among ancient human relatives, may have shared the stage with a hominin very different from herself, a newly found fossil suggests. Out of the Ethiopian desert, researchers have ...

WASHINGTON - Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man's primal development. Because the ...

A new study reveals humans evolved from African ape-like ancestors. Researchers analysed the ankle bones of Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed “Ardi.” The fossil is 4.4 million years old. Ardi possesses ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- A team of U.S. and Ethiopian scientists has discovered the fossilized remains of what they believe is humankind's first walking ancestor, a hominid that lived in the ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A recent study from Washington University in St. Louis has found new evidence that strengthens the theory that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors in Africa. The findings, ...

Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, is now the region’s best-known fossil, having made news worldwide this past fall when White and others published a series of papers detailing her skeleton and ...

Today, many anthropologists consider the African continent to be the cradle of humanity. According to established theory, primates living in Africa millions of years ago gave rise to various species ...

The bones of our ancestors do not speak across time with ultimate clarity. The fossils with which scientists reconstruct our family tree are often fragments that offer hints and clues to where we came ...