Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

It is unclear who the bones belong to and how long they were there before they were found Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven ...

New study of 7-million-year-old fossils from Chad proves Sahelanthropus tchadensis walked upright while still climbing trees.

A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.

Human bones discovered by archaeologists offer a window into the lives of Middle Age citizens and upends previously held beliefs about the treatment of disabled people in ancient times, a study ...

A bone dragged to a Birmingham home by the same dog that previously found a human skull has been determined to be a leg bone. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates on Friday said the bone ...

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The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Homicide investigators and divers with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office are working to identify human bones found floating in a shoe in McCoy Creek early Monday, the agency said ...

It is unclear who the bones belong to and how long they were there before they were found Two human leg bones were recently found at a Philadelphia park, although authorities are still trying to ...

A bone dragged to a Birmingham, Alabama, home by the same dog that previously found a human skull has been determined to be a leg bone. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates on Friday said ...