An analysis of the femur of one of the oldest human ancestors reveals the six-million-year-old “Millenium Man” was bipedal but lived in the trees. The research could provide additional insight to the ...

Fossils of what may be the earliest known ancestor of the human family have been unearthed in Kenya. The bones and teeth are about 6 million years old, at least 1.5 million years older than any ...

The residents now want it back. They say the government is generating a lot of money from donors and researchers at their expense Orrorin Community Organisation secretary Micah Cherutoi said fossil ...

A 6 million-year-old early relative of modern humans apparently walked on two feet, pushing back the origins of so-called bipedalism, according to a new study of a fossil found in Kenya. "I would say ...

When did primates first walk on two legs? Was it 4 million years ago, when Australopithecus afarensis waddled through the mud in eastern Africa? Or was it 6 million years ago, when a chimpanzee-size ...

A shape comparison of the most complete fossil femur (thigh bone) of one of the earliest known pre-humans, or hominins, with the femora of living apes, modern humans and other fossils, indicates the ...

A new fossil analysis bolsters the theory that a chimp-size primate that lived in Kenya's Tugen Hills some six million years ago walked on two legs, researchers say. As such, the creature, known as ...