Six newly discovered fossil teeth from the hominid Ardipithecus, which lived in eastern Africa more than 5 million years ago, have sharpened the scientific debate about our evolutionary origins. “It ...

Fossils unearthed from an Ethiopian site not far from where the famous hominid Ardi’s partial skeleton was found suggest that her species was evolving different ways of walking upright more than 4 ...

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Among the many surprises associated with the discovery of the oldest known, nearly complete skeleton of a hominid is the finding that this species took its first steps toward bipedalism not on the ...

We have been waiting for Willow Smith to debut her first album for years now and she finally has done it… without anyone knowing she was going to do it! The 15-year-old singer just dropped her debut ...

New research gives weight to the idea that humans evolved from a species not dissimilar to an African ape. And it all comes down to the ankles. Humans stand apart - quite literally - from other ...