A Nature study analyzing a Sahelanthropus tchadensis femur suggests regular bipedal walking around 7 million years ago, while forearm bones indicate continued tree climbing. The research compares ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most consequential questions: how many species of early hominins walked the Earth at the ...

Its skin is literally warm — and we're not sure we want to know why. The post This Robot With a Working Human Face Is ...

If you want safe robots, then they need to talk to each other, explains a robotics innovator. What’s behind this counter-intuitive idea?

Her limited display in Abu Dhabi until March 23 underscores rare international loans, with ownership retained by Ethiopia and ...

A reconstruction of a Late Jurassic Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry ecosystem from around 150 million years ago shows a diverse array of bipedal theropod dinosaurs, including Torvosaurus (far right in the ...

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant ...

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human ...

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict ...