Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

In a paper in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, researchers argue that a 7.2-million-year-old femur from the Azmaka site preserves a blend of traits consistent with an early, transitional ...

Images: N. Spassov, D. Youlatos, M. Böhme, R. Bogdanova, L. Hristova, D. Begun The Graecopithecus femur from Azmaka, Bulgaria, (left ...

Ancient tooth fossils found in Europe may represent a new chapter in the human origin story. The fossils, which date back more than 7 million years, belonged to an ape-like creature named ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils from Greece and Bulgaria of an ape-like creature that lived 7.2 million years ago ...

This is the lower jaw of the 7.175 million-year-old Graecopithecus freybergi (El Graeco) from Pyrgos Vassilissis, Greece (today in metropolitan Athens). Wolfgang Gerber, University of Tübingen One of ...

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...

Researchers studying human origins have long argued that some of the earliest primates lived in Eurasia. As the story goes, some of them eventually made their way into Africa where, between six and ...

An international team, including the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen, has discovered a 7.2 million-year-old Graecopithecus femur in Bulgaria An international ...