Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

Lucy, likely female, stood about one meter tall. Males would have been somewhat larger. Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The seven individuals in the study probably are ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans’ development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn’t start with Australopithecus, according to a new study Margherita ...

Nitrogen isotope analysis of tooth enamel reveals no evidence of meat consumption in Australopithecus. New research published in the journal Science suggests that early human ancestors, such as ...

But evidence of when prehistoric people started eating meat has been difficult to find. Australopithecus was a hominin—a human-like mammal—that walked on two legs but had smaller brains than ...

Males would have been somewhat larger. Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species ...

A fossilised skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, best known by her nickname 'Lucy', was unearthed by researchers 50 years ago this month in the Afar region of Ethiopia. New research provides the ...

Australopithecus had a variable but plant-based diet, according to an analysis of stable isotope data from seven hominin specimens dating back 3.5 million years from Sterkfontein in South Africa.

By comparing these isotopic signatures to those of coexisting animals – including herbivores like antelopes and monkeys, as well as carnivores such as hyenas and big cats – the scientists established ...

Males would have been somewhat larger. Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species ...

Previous research has shown that Australopithecus afarensis, a species of australopithecine that lived in East Africa from around 3.9 million years to 3 million years ago, likely had a diet of grasses ...

Males would have been somewhat larger. Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species ...