A fossilized femur discovered in Bulgaria is now considered one of the oldest known pieces of evidence suggesting early ...

A fossilized femur attributed to the hominin species Graecopithecus freybergi is offering fresh clues about how human ...

In a press statement, the researchers who analyzed the ancient thighbone posit that this compact creature may have therefore ...

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 ...

Apes may have been walking upright in what is now Bulgaria 7.2 million years ago. So say researchers who have found a leg bone that shows signs of bipedal walking. The leg bone is older than any known ...

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 ...