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Whatever Ardi was, everyone agrees the fossils was initially badly crushed and needed extensive reconstruction.

On the morning of July 19, 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Sahara Desert.

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

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

Researchers have found the moment when our ancestors finally began walking on two legs.

A new study adds evidence that a fossil species from Africa could be our earliest known ancestor

For those who follow the theory of evolution and accept the idea that humans and other primates had common ancestors, one

An analysis of thigh and forearm bones from Sahelanthropus tchadensis suggests the early hominin was mainly bipedal, but the claim is controversial

NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty years ago, scientists discovered a 7-million-year-old skull that they concluded belonged to a creature who walked upright and was our earliest known ancestor. Not everyone