Some scientists believe humans became bipedal to adapt to climate change, but our closest primate ancestors complicate that ...

When did the first hominins start to walk upright? How long ago did the first bipedal species emerge? I think that the answer to these questions goes back a lot further than we all previously thought ...

How did human bipedalism evolve towards greater energy efficiency? By analyzing the occasional bipedal walking of baboons, researchers have modeled energy transfers between body segments. Their ...

In a sense, the inner ear bones of the Lufengpithecus is a missing link in the evolutionary history of human locomotion. It all comes down to bipedalism, or the fact that humans walk on two legs.

University of Tokyo researchers created a new bipedal robot that runs with living muscle tissue. This unique component enables the machine to walk on two legs and make sharp turns to avoid obstacles.

A collaborative dinosaur survey by Okayama University of Science and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences has revealed one of the largest bipedal dinosaur footprints ever ...

The gift of existing in the world as bipedal organisms puts the human race at the top of the hierarchy in the animal kingdom. With a set of hands with opposable thumbs and the ability to walk, our ...