Hominins may have transitioned to walking on two feet over 7 million years ago.

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, ...

Between 2 million and 3 million years ago, humans appeared in Africa — but identifying them in the fossil record is turning ...

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 ...

A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

Explore the complex 2-million-year journey of human evolution. From the "Handy Man" in Africa to the interbreeding of ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

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So when did our human ancestors start making tools? Well, the earliest artifacts that we know of date back more than 3 million years, but early finds had been scattered and inconsistent until new ...