The World Health Organisation notes that in 2020, 619 million people worldwide suffered from lower back pain. Globally, lower ...

Scientists uncover fossils suggesting Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a 7-million-year-old ancestor, could walk upright. Could ...

New analysis of Sahelanthropus fossils suggests upright walking emerged much earlier than once thought. Leg bones, skull anatomy, and environmental context are used to assess whether bipedalism began ...

In a paper published in Nature, a team led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged reports ...

Looking back at human history, there emerges a scene where beings that once walked on four legs suddenly rose up and stood on ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Crania, ulnae, and femora of (left to right): a chimpanzee, Sahelanthropus, and Australopithecus. (Courtesy of Scott Williams/NYU and Jason Heaton/University of Alabama Birmingham.) (CN) — The ability ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, was announced in the early 2000s as a possible early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aside from our big brains, the trait that most distinguishes humans from other animals is our ability to walk fully upright on two ...

Aside from our big brains, the trait that most distinguishes humans from other animals is our ability to walk fully upright on two legs, a style of movement without parallel in the animal kingdom. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A controversial hominid that lived 7 million years ago may have walked on two legs after all, according to a new analysis of its ...