In 2001, researchers unearthed a scattering of fossils beneath the windswept dunes of the Djurab Desert of northern Chad. The remains were later identified as belonging to an extinct species, ...
It’s considered to be one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ancestors made the transition from walking on all fours to standing on ...
Crania, ulnae, and femora of (left to right): a chimpanzee, Sahelanthropus, and Australopithecus. (Courtesy of Scott Williams/NYU and Jason Heaton/University of Alabama Birmingham.) (CN) — The ability ...
In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...
More than two decades ago, scientists digging in Central Africa unearthed the 7-million-year-old remains of what may be one of the earliest known human ancestors. Only a few fossils were recovered ...
(via SciShow) In 2002, a research team discovered one of the oldest human ancestors ever, called Sahelanthropus. For over twenty years, most people thought that all they found was a skull. But a few ...