Hominins may have transitioned to walking on two feet over 7 million years ago.

An artist's impression of Graecopithecus freybergi. (Velizar Simeonovski) Around 7 million years ago, a little creature ...

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 ...

Ancient tooth fossils found in Europe may represent a new chapter in the human origin story. The fossils, which date back more than 7 million years, belonged to an ape-like creature named ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graecopithecus lived 7.2 million years ago in the dust-laden savannah of the Athens basin. Credit: Veliza Simeonovski The fossil, unearthed at the Azmaka site, near the Bulgarian town of Chirpan in ...