This is the lower jaw of the 7.175 million-year-old Graecopithecus freybergi (El Graeco) from Pyrgos Vassilissis, Greece (today in metropolitan Athens). Wolfgang Gerber, University of Tübingen One of ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

Researchers studying human origins have long argued that some of the earliest primates lived in Eurasia. As the story goes, some of them eventually made their way into Africa where, between six and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ancestors began their ...

Around 7 million years ago, a little creature braved wildcats and hyenas to cross the floodplains of Bulgaria – and she may have done so on two legs. A recently described fossil femur offers evidence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils from Greece and Bulgaria of an ape-like creature that lived 7.2 million years ago ...

A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ancestors began their transition to bipedalism. The bone’s morphology suggests ...