A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

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 ...

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 ...

These newly discovered dates, identified through a new dating method, indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves date from the very beginning of the Australopithecine era, rather than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a glass case at the vault’s centre, resting on blue velvet, is Little Foot, the near-complete remains of a member of the species Australopithecus prometheus. Mrs Ples’s unearthing was the ...

Here’s how it works. In the century since the Taung Child was found and described, a great debate has developed about the geological ages of the Australopithecus fossils found at Sterkfontein as ...