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Smithsonian paleoanthropologists reveal the year’s most riveting findings about our close relatives and ancestors

Scientists say examinations of arm and leg fossils discovered in Africa provide new evidence about a species that could be our earliest known ancestor.

Remains from Chad desert provoke rancorous dispute over whether species was earliest to walk upright

PARIS — The earliest known human ancestor walked on two feet as well as climbing through trees around seven million years ago, scientists recently said after studying three limb bones.When the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis was discovered in Chad in 2001, it pushed back the age of the oldest known representative species of humanity by a million years. Nicknamed “Toumai”,

PARIS — The earliest known human ancestor walked on two feet as well as climbing through trees around seven million years ago, scientists recently said after studying three limb bones.When the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis was discovered in Chad in 2001, it pushed back the age of the oldest known representative species of humanity by a million years. Nicknamed “Toumai”,

New study adds evidence that fossil species from Africa could be earliest known ancestor

Characteristics of the 7 million-year-old fossils provide evidence that the Sahelanthropus could have been the first bipedal member of our species.

PARIS: The earliest known human ancestor walked on two feet as well as climbing through trees around seven million...

The arm and leg bones suggested an upright stance.

The earliest known human ancestor walked on two feet as well as climbing through trees around 7 million years ago, scientists said on Wednesday after studying three limb bones.