The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

He imparts to it all the ape-like qualities that could exist in a man in line with the O'Neill play. The Eugene O’Neill play, one of his earliest and one carrying plenty of gutter dialog and ...

Those were venturesome steps for some ape-like creatures long ago in Africa. Dropping out of trees, they essayed a novel means of locomotion, for reasons that elude paleoanthropologists.

Changes from an ape-like anatomy are discernible in hominoid fossils from the late Miocene in Africa. Some hominoid species from this period exhibit traits that are typical of humans but are not ...

“These are still fairly ape-like, small-brained hominins, that already walked upright but had a more ape-like walk,” Lüdecke tells NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce. “Here, for the first ...