According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

Ancient tooth fossils found in Europe may represent a new chapter in the human origin story. The fossils, which date back more than 7 million years, belonged to an ape-like creature named ...

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 ...

What if the origins of our lineage were not where scientists have long believed them to be? A new study suggests that a very ancient primate discovered in the Balkans may belong to the earliest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils from Greece and Bulgaria of an ape-like creature that lived 7.2 million years ago ...

Researchers studying human origins have long argued that some of the earliest primates lived in Eurasia. As the story goes, some of them eventually made their way into Africa where, between six and ...

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics. Until now, researchers assumed that the first humans originated in Africa and ...

This is the lower jaw of the 7.175 million-year-old Graecopithecus freybergi (El Graeco) from Pyrgos Vassilissis, Greece (today in metropolitan Athens). Wolfgang Gerber, University of Tübingen One of ...