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Scientists think they found the first human ancestor that walked upright

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ancestors began their ...
La Brújula Verde

Did the First Human Ancestors Arise in the Balkans and Then Migrate to Africa? A 7.2-Million-Year-Old Femur Found in Bulgaria Rewrites the History of Evolution

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 ...
Archaeology

Possible Early Human Ancestor Femur Uncovered in the Balkans

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 ...
CBC.ca

7.2-million-year-old pre-human fossils challenge modern human evolution theory

A jawbone discovered by German troops in Athens during the Second World War could be evidence that apes and humans diverged 200,000 years earlier than the current theory says. Chimpanzees and bonobos ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Think They Found the First Human Ancestor That Walked Upright

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 ...