The 11.6-million-year-old bones still don’t tell us how members of the genus Homo became bipeds Tree-dwelling apes in Europe strode upright around 5 million years before members of the human ...

Instead, they contend, the ability to walk upright was in part a serendipitous by-product of new feeding habits. As our ancestors descended from the trees to forage on the ground for low-hanging ...

According to the coroner's office, the incident occurred "when one of the trees that was laying on the ground suddenly sprung back to an upright position and trapped the victim under the base of ...