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 ...

In Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, the average adult male weighed near 110 pounds and stood around 4 feet 11 inches tall. Adult females were relatively petite, weighing roughly 60 ...

The study, published in the South African Journal of Science, reports that the fossil remains and the tooth of ...

Can they run fast enough, and far enough? Our team's research modeled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out how well they could run. Australopithecus afarensis ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved ... these individuals were a parent and child, or a large male and his diminutive mate. The details of the prints are ...