As natural as walking is to us tail-less bipedal mammals, the fact of the matter is that it took many evolutionary adaptations to make this act of controlled falling forward work (somewhat) reliabl… ...

The seven million year old Sahelanthropus tchadensis was discovered in 2001 in Chad and announced in 2002 as a habitual bipedal hominin species based on an adult distorted cranium. Thus, any ...

Our ancestors were walking on two legs 7 MILLION years ago: Ancient human species Sahelanthropus was bipedal – but could also swing through the trees like a monkey, fossil analysis reveals ...

At 7 million years old, Sahelanthropus tchadensis is considered the oldest representative species of humanity. Its description dates back to 2001 when the Franco-Chadian Paleoanthropological ...

The fossil record hasn’t always presented a clear evolutionary history of bipedalism. These days, our species primarily walks upright on two legs, but primates can also climb up trees using arms ...

A dig more than 20 years ago uncovered the arm and leg bones of one of our oldest known ancestors. New research shows they provide evidence that our ancestors walked on two feet – more than 7 ...

A small badger-like mammal and a juvenile bipedal dinosaur were locked in a battle to the death 125 million years ago when they were both killed and perfectly preserved by a volcanic mudflow.

Inner ear of extinct ape species is overlooked aspect of human bipedal evolution, study finds Described by scientists as a "bony labyrinth," the inner ear provides many clues as to the origin of ...

Earlier fossils showed Repenomamus mammals with baby dinosaur bones in their stomachs, ... a group of carnivorous, mostly bipedal dinosaurs that also included the Tyrannosaurus.

Although gut contents prove mammals ate dinosaurs in the Cretaceous, he feels “it is more important and meaningful to discover a concrete [specimen] of this mammal preying on the dinosaurs ...

But the unlikely fossil depicts combat between a mammal called Repenomamus robustus and a bipedal, plant-eating relative of Triceratops called Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis.