They’re reporting on new research published in the journal Current Biology, wherein physics simulations were conducted, based ...

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

The fossilized remains were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa, a site renowned for its wealth of hominid ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

At least 400 fossil specimens represent Australopithecus afarensis. This species had human-like and apelike features. The snout, dentition, and dental arch resemble an ape. The cranial capacity is ...

Subsequent discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis and associated fauna appeared to corroborate this hypothesis. However, the ecological contexts of the earliest hominins suggest that the link ...

TOWARDS the close of 1924, Miss Josephine -*- Salmons, student demonstrator of anatomy in the University of the Witwatersrand, brought to me the fossilised skull of a cercopithecid monkey which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lucy and other members of her species, Australopithecus afarensis, lived between 3.9 and 3.0 million years ago. They are believed to be the most ancient common ancestor, or "stem" species ...