The oldest distinguishing feature between humans and our ape cousins is our ability to walk on two legs – a trait known as bipedalism. Among mammals, only humans and our ancestors perform this ...

Picture this: 4.4 million years ago, a small female creature named Ardi roamed the woodlands of what is now Ethiopia. She was not fully ape and not fully human. She was something beautifully ...

WASHINGTON — Fossils have long provided snapshots of the human family tree, but a new find in Africa gives scientists a kind of mini home movie showing man’s primal development. Because the ...