The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...
New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.
A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...
The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
Scientists argue ape-like Sahelanthropus tchadensis that lived in Africa 7m years ago is best contender but more fossils are needed ...
For most people, the loss of a sense such as sight is devastating, not only for intensifying vulnerability, but for ...
A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.
A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.
A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...
Archaeologists working in Malawi say they have uncovered the world’s earliest known intentional cremation of an adult human, ...
Greenland’s remote eastern fjords are a place of elemental beauty, where glaciers carve through the land, musk oxen roam ...
Neuralink plans high-volume brain chip production in 2026, aiming automated implants and expanded human trials.