Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body ...

The first human-like traits to appear in the hominin fossil record are bipedal walking and smaller, blunt canines.

They were first spotted by team member Richard ... The trackway changes that: “It’s unequivocal evidence of walking on two legs.” What made us human? The fossils redefining our evolutionary ...

had been made by some of the first upright-walking hominids. An almost unimaginable sequence of events preserved what paleontologist Ian Tattersall calls a fossil of human behavior -- prehistoric ...

First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa, Journal of Human Evolution (2025).