The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been ...

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

An international team from Tel Aviv University and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research announced that a reanalysis of a child’s skull from Skhul Cave on Mount Carmel in Israel provided ...

Tucked among the gentle hills of Ohio’s Amish Country, Walnut Creek Marketplace in Sugarcreek stands as a monument to the art of the deal – a sprawling treasure trove where bargain hunters and ...

Imagine cruising down a Florida highway, enjoying the sunshine, when suddenly—BOOM!—an enormous Tyrannosaurus appears in your line of sight, jaws agape and ready for lunch. Don’t worry, your car ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

But the new study also suggests that the ilium underwent a second major change millions of years later, when humans evolved ...

Genetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legs ...

The research, published in Communications Biology, provides the first direct evidence that manual dexterity and brain ...