The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.

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

A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

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

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

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

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

Anthropologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient ape species that roamed Africa on two feet seven million years ago, ...

A Europe‑wide survey of 10,000 respondents shows strong backing for the recovery of wolves, lynx and bears, as well as opposition to hunting and culling, but also shows that a majority opposes any ...