A team of scientists has pieced together how the hominid Australopithecus sediba (Au. sediba) walked, chewed, and moved nearly two million years ago.Their research, which appears in six papers in ...

Found in 1979, Lucy represented the species Australopithecus afarensis and lived 3.2 million years ago. The freshly dated fossils also belong to the genus Australopithecus, an ancient hominin that ...

They focused on the fossil hands of two early human ancestor species recovered from excavations in southern Africa, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi. The individuals lived around 2 ...

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

This would make them older than Dinkinesh, also called Lucy, the world’s most famous Australopithecus fossil. The “Cradle of Humankind” is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa that comprises a ...

One of the most famous fossils in human evolutionary history is known as "Lucy," who belonged to an extinct species called Australopithecus afarensis—an early relative of Homo sapiens who was ...

However, Ashleigh Wiseman, a paleoanthropology research associate at the University of Cambridge, created 3D models of the leg and pelvis muscles of the 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus ...

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

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...