The Lucy fossil’s role in human evolution is debated: new discoveries question whether she was truly our direct ancestor.
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The top human evolution discoveries of 2025, from the intriguing Neanderthal diet to the oldest Western European face fossil
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...
New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.
In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...
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Oldest human ancestor: 7 million-year-old fossil proves bipedal signs, challenges history
Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...
The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
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