Perhaps they needed to free the hands for carrying food or infants over ... The newly identified species were older more primitive and much more ape-like than any hominids known before, but ...

The ape had arms suited to hanging in the trees, but human-like legs. It may have walked along branches and even on the ground some 12 million years ago, pushing back the timeline for bipedal ...

The discovered skull (R) with an artist's rendering (L) of what Anamensis might have looked like Researchers have discovered a nearly complete 3.8-million-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ...