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New Fossil Analysis Suggests This Seven-Million-Year-Old Primate Walked on Two Legs, Potentially Making It the Oldest Known Human Ancestor
Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...
A modern analysis of 7-million-year-old remains suggest this mysterious ancient primate is the oldest human ancestor ever found.
A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.
A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.
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Early hominins walked on two legs 7 million years ago, study finds
A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...
In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...
Humans may associate scaling branches with childish behavior — classic monkeying around — but in truth, climbing trees is a big part of our collective story. Ancient bones unearthed in Africa go a ...
Scans of bones from "Lucy," the 3.18 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil, suggest that the relative strength of her arms and legs was in between that of modern chimpanzees and modern ...
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