The lab, founded in the late 1980s by Ethiopia’s first paleoanthropologist, Berhane Asfaw, was set up to prevent the export ...

Fossil footprints by Australopithecus afarensis - an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago in the Pliocene of East Africa. These footprints are not ...

The Olduvai Gorge has also yielded some of the oldest fossils, including the Laetoli Canine from Australopithecus Afarensis, dating back to 3.5 million years ago.

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.

Ancient proteins reveal male Australopithecus africanus, oldest hominin found in Sterkfontein Caves The Australopithecus africanus specimen is the oldest hominin analyzed for sex using ...

Researchers made a virtual reconstruction of the leg and pelvic muscles — which are not preserved in fossils — of the female Australopithecus afarensis, or Lucy, who probably was “not a ...

Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus.

Lucy, our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of the species Australopithecus afarensis, may not have won gold in the Olympics – but new evidence suggests she was able to run upright. According to ...

In an interesting and intriguing recent finding, research shows that Lucy's species - Australopithecus Afarensis, was not the only early human species roaming the Earth at the time.

Lucy walked on her own two feet. Scientists weren’t expecting that. We take a look back at the discovery of ‘Australopithecus afarensis’ 50 years ago. Donald Johanson really had no business ...

An analysis by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, on the manual capabilities of early hominins reveals that some Australopithecus species exhibited hand use similar to modern humans.