The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

In the technical description, the authors emphasize that the skeleton includes clavicle and shoulder-blade fragments, both upper arms, both forearms, plus part of the sacrum and hip bones - rare ...

Human bones washed up along the Brooklyn Bridge Park shoreline this week — marking at least the fifth time remains have been recovered from the waterfront in the last few months, officials said Friday ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

If evolutionary biologist Terence D. Capellini were to rank the body parts that make us quintessentially human, the pelvis would place close to the top. After all, its design makes it possible for ...

The wide, basin-shaped pelvis of modern humans helps us walk upright on two legs and give birth safely to babies with large heads. Pixabay Walking upright on two legs is one of the key traits that ...

All vertebrate species have a pelvis, but only humans use it for upright, two-legged walking. The evolution of the human pelvis, and our two-legged gait, dates back 5 million years, but the precise ...

BEAR LAKE, Idaho (KUTV) — The history behind a human jaw bone unearthed at Bear Lake last week has captivated the attention of University of Idaho researchers. But for one Garden City man, the ...

One August day in 2008, a pair of nine-year-old boys crossed paths at a cave in South Africa. The boys didn’t play, didn’t speak, didn’t even smile at each other. One of them was Matthew Berger, the ...