Sahelanthropus has a number of different attacks. It has a flaming whip that it brings down in front of it. As well as the damage from whip, watch out for the raised rock that follows in its path. It ...

What may be the earliest-known human ancestor, an ape-man called Sahelanthropus tchadensis who lived in Africa roughly 7 million years ago, walked upright for much of the time, according to a new ...

Daniel E. Lieberman is in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. Hominin footprints at Laetoli reveal a walk on the wild side The ulna ...

A battered fossil leg bone discovered more than 20 years ago in Chad is finally making its scientific debut. Researchers say that the remains, described today in Nature, show that a species called ...

The seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis skull, known as Toumai, viewed from different sides. Image: Didier Descouens/Wikicommons Ten years ago, an international group of anthropologists ...

It's considered to be one of the most decisive steps in human evolution, yet until now, how and when our ancestors began walking on two legs has remained unclear. Now, scientists have analysed the ...