Scientists may have just pushed back the timeline for when our ancestors first started walking upright. A new study suggests that Sahelanthropus...

Did Sahelanthropus, which lived 7 million years ago, walk on two legs like a modern human? It's complicated ......

Did Sahelanthropus, which lived 7 million years ago, walk on two legs like a modern human? It's complicated ......

A couple of decades ago, anthropologists unearthed an enigmatic ape-like fossil that roamed the Sahara region over 7 million years ago. It didn’t...

A couple of decades ago, anthropologists unearthed an enigmatic ape-like fossil that roamed the Sahara region over 7 million years ago. It didn’t...

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

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

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

The history of whale hunting is much older—and more global—than researchers once believed. A new study shows that Indigenous communities living...

A group of anthropologists’ new analysis offers powerful evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis—a species discovered in the early 2000s—was...