“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

In the late 19th century, miners discovered fossils in the caves that attracted the interest of paleontologists. The numerous remains discovered at Sterkfontein are attributed to the following genera: ...

Three million years after she walked the Earth, the face of Lucy - one of humanity's most important ancestors - has been brought to life like never before. Thanks to a detailed di ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...

Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in Nature identifying a new species: Australopithecus africanus. The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung ...

Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern human (far right) skeletons are adapted to walking upright, but a chimpanzee's skeleton (left) isn't These features serve as useful identifiers in the ...