A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a ...

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

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

A biological anthropologist explains why humans can't wiggle their toes in the same way they can wiggle their fingers.

Remarkable new footage shows a wild gray wolf using a human crab trap with startling precision, challenging what we thought we knew about wolf intelligence.

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

Actor Gene Hackman, who died in February, aged 95, was prolific, acting in about 80 films, many of which he says he took for ...

From tiger recoveries and chimpanzee genetics to AI conservation tools, this accessible overview includes exciting research ...

In the early 20th century, scientists maintained that one of the fundamental differences between animals and humans is that ...

Then they use the rudimentary spears, which are around 75 centimetres long, to stab bushbabies while they sleep in their ...

She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson In the beginning, Jane Goodall named the chimpanzees. This was controversial. It was 1960, back when scientists weren’t ...