An ancient human relative was able to walk the ground on two legs and use their upper limbs to climb and swing like apes, according to a new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils.

M4 montage: Four different Australopithecus crania that were found in the Sterkfontein caves, South Africa. The Sterkfontein cave fill containing this and other Australopithecus fossils was dated ...

1.5 million-year-old fossil humans walked on modern feet Footprints found at Ileret, Kenya, display anatomically modern features Peer-Reviewed Publication Rutgers University ...

Australopithecus inhabited eastern and southern Africa from roughly 4.2 to 1.9 million years ago. Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago.

Most Australopithecus fossils have been excavated from an ancient cave infill called "Member 4." Its age has been disputed for more than half a century with estimates ranging from 2 million years ...

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

A team led by Dr Tina Lüdecke of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry applied this to the contents of seven Australopithecus teeth in the M4 deposit in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Cave. The ...

Were Australopithecus ancestors of humans? Among debates about these hominids is the argument whether or not they could stand and walk upright like people do. William Sanders, a paleontologist at ...

A new fossil discovery means we’re finally able to look upon the face of our oldest ancestor. Paleontologists have discovered an almost-complete skull of Australopithecus anamensis, which has ...

The virtually complete Australopithecus fossil "Little Foot" is displayed at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. Themba Hadebe / AP ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy, which was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and is about 3.2 million years old. Lucy, likely female, stood about one meter (3.5 feet ...