Upright walking required profound changes in anatomy ... on their two feet. Some monkeys, natural quadrupeds, may occasionally walk bipedally, especially when carrying food. Chimpanzees, the ...

Hatala, who is an expert in foot anatomy, determined they reflected ... as well as other fossilized hominin prints and tracks made by chimpanzees.Hatala found that the 12-print trackway was ...

Scientists were able to distinguish between the two species because of the shape of the footprints, which holds clues to the anatomy of the foot and how it's being used. A fossil footprint in ...

Fossils of 600-million-year-old "tiny humanoids" were discovered in Antarctica. A story perpetuated in some social media ...

He has also studied wild chimpanzees in western Uganda and early fossils in museums in eastern and southern Africa. All in pursuit of one question: how did walking upright make us human? DeSilva has ...

A study by researchers Nikolaos Gerakakis and Prof. Dimitrios Makris has successfully reconstructed the skull of an extinct ...