A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ancestors began their transition to bipedalism. The bone’s morphology suggests ...
"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “The Azmaka hominin represents a candidate for the ancestral form of positional behavior from which ...
Around 7 million years ago, a little creature braved wildcats and hyenas to cross the floodplains of Bulgaria – and she may have done so on two legs. A recently described fossil femur offers evidence ...
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 ...
Upper and lower jaw fossils from Nikiti in northern Greece, dated to about 8 to 9 million years ago, were reanalyzed and suggested to belong to a previously unknown ape species. The find is used to ...
TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—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 ...
Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...
An international team, including the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research and the University of Tübingen, has discovered a 7.2 million-year-old Graecopithecus femur in Bulgaria An international ...
Graecopithecus lived 7.2 million years ago in the dust-laden savannah of the Athens basin. Credit: Veliza Simeonovski The fossil, unearthed at the Azmaka site, near the Bulgarian town of Chirpan in ...