Humans and our closest relatives, living apes, display a remarkable diversity of types of locomotion—from walking upright on two legs to climbing in trees and walking using all four limbs. While ...

Danuvius guggenmosi was discovered in a Bavarian clay pit and dates to about 11.6 million years ago. Its fossils suggest a ...

Yes, humans evolved from apes. But that's not the most accurate way to describe our place on the tree of life, and it certainly doesn't explain why apes still exist. The question stems from a common ...

Human ancestors began walking more like humans and less like apes long before modern humans began walking the Earth. A new laser analysis involving footprints discovered in 1976 at Laetoli, Tanzania, ...