Ever since the discovery of Australopithecus africanus and the recovery of associated fauna indicative of open habitats, it has been posited that the origin of bipedality in our lineage had its ...

Australopithecus afarensis, affectionately known as “Lucy,” was unearthed in 1974 in the Hadar region of Ethiopia. Despite her small brain size (approximately 385-550 cm³), Lucy displayed an ...

The ancient hominin Australopithecus anamensis is thought to be one of our oldest known relations – but what do we actually know about the species? The remains of A. anamensis have been ...

Selam may actually be younger than Lucy's namesake, the 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s.

The most recent analysis of the 1.98-million-year old bones of Australopithecus sediba is showing that the hominins living in Africa at that time were a more diverse bunch than anyone expected.

Chad, which holds a presidential election on May 6, has been ruled by the same family for more than three decades.

Lucy is comprised of several hundred fragments of fossilized bone which, when combined, make up the skeletal structure of ...

Recent decades have seen the discovery of several new hominin species, from Australopithecus sediba to Homo floresiensis. Van Holstein created a new database of “occurrences” in the hominin ...

By this time, the hominid lineage had forked into two branches. One branch of the genus Australopithecus developed specializations for eating tough tubers and other hard foods—huge jaw muscles ...

The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa, by the anthropologist Raymond Dart. He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ...

The students used calipers to measure and quantify bony protrusions on skulls from five ancient periods of human species; ...

Furthermore, the traditional term "australopithecine," which grouped Australopithecus and Paranthropus in the subfamily Australopithecinae, becomes invalid under this revised taxonomy; in the ...