The first members of the human lineage lack many features that distinguish us from other primates. Although it has been a difficult quest, we are closer than ever to knowing the mother of us all. Aa ...

It has long been thought that hominins – the taxonomic tribe to which humans belong – first appeared in Africa around 7 million years ago. However, researchers may have just found the remains of an ...

Fossils of what may be the earliest known ancestor of the human family have been unearthed in Kenya. The bones and teeth are about 6 million years old, at least 1.5 million years older than any ...

When Kiptalam Cheboi of the Community Museums of Kenya stumbled across a jaw bone in Kenya’s Tugen Hills he knew that who it belonged to was no ordinary ape. Soon, Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut ...

Lucy McDowell, one of the producers of the “Search for the First Human” film, takes us behind the scenes on three shoots: the site in Kenya’s Tugen Hills where fossils belonging to Orrorin tugenensis ...

A new fossil analysis bolsters the theory that a chimp-size primate that lived in Kenya's Tugen Hills some six million years ago walked on two legs, researchers say. As such, the creature, known as ...

Orrorin tugenensis lived around 6 million years ago and shows early evidence of bipedalism. Fossils and ancient footprints raise questions about whether some of the earliest upright-walking hominins ...

For a couple of geezers, the two rivals are really going at it. In one corner stands the official champion, Ardipithecus ramidus, discovered in 1994 in the barren Ethiopian badlands by ...

Hominids started walking on two legs six million years ago, shortly after diverging from chimpanzees, according to a study of the inner structure of a fossilised thighbone. The finding puts upright ...