See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The first hominin species, a line that eventually leads to humans, may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Europe, not Africa, might have spawned the first members of the human evolutionary family around 7 million years ago, researchers say. Armed with only jaw and tooth fossils, the investigators don’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lower jaw of the 7.175 million year old Graecopithecus freybergi (El Graeco) from Pyrgos Vassilissis, Greece is shown in this ...

Seven million years ago the sunflower and corn fields in parts of southern Bulgaria were like an African savannah, roamed by gazelles and giraffes. And perhaps also, amazingly, by the oldest known ...

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 ...