Most robots walk like they've soiled themselves; this one walks with a crazy amount of personality. Disney is getting very good at combining the art of character animation with the science of bipedal ...

A trio of upright walkers: Lucy (middle) and Australopithecus sediba (left and right) Compiled by Peter Schmid courtesy of Lee R. Berger, University of the ...

Few attributes of being human have attracted more intense thought than the simple fact that, unlike all other living mammals, we walk upright on two legs. Human bipedalism represents a major ...

Bones recovered from northern Ethiopia have forced a major rethink about how bipedalism evolved. Lars Plougmann A report published today in Nature by Yohannes Hailie-Selassie and co-workers outlines ...