When and how was walking invented? This is an important question because many anthropologists see bipedalism — which means walking on two legs — as one of the defining characteristics of “hominins,” ...

In this video segment, Don Johanson describes finding the knee joint in Hadar, Ethiopia, that first indicated a bipedal hominid had lived 3 million years ago. His subsequent expedition led to the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study has shed light on the running abilities of Australopithecus afarensis, our 3.2-million-year-old ancestor famously ...

A Cambridge University researcher has digitally reconstructed the missing soft tissue of an early human ancestor—or hominin—for the first time, revealing a capability to stand as erect as we do today.

Lucy, the world famous early bipedal hominin, was a swinger. Scans of her skeleton confirm that she had an exceptionally powerful upper body, thanks to spending a lot of time climbing trees. The ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

Prague’s newest visitor is 3.2 million years old. Lucy, the famed Australopithecus afarensis fossil, has arrived in the Czech capital alongside Selam, a young child of the same species, for a ...

"Lucy" remains one of the most famous prehistoric traces of humanity, and while previous technologies couldn't showcase how Lucy walked, new modeling could do just that. With the help of 3D ...