Australopithecus afarensis may have walked upright and looked somewhat human-like, but they were much smaller than we are. Lucy died as a young but fully grown adult, and stood only 1.1m (3.7ft ...

The discovery is changing our understanding of Australopithecus, an ancient hominin. Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, ...

T he Australopithecus has been around for a while now—and so has our knowledge of that human ancestor. The species Australopithecus africanus (“the southern ape of Africa”) was first ...

A 2.5-million-year-old fossil of a hominin species called Australopithecus africanus had been discovered in South Africa. ... An illustration of what Lucy’s species may have looked like. Michael ...

Australopithecus 1 Million Years Older! Posted: May 27, 2025 | Last updated: June 15, 2025. These newly discovered dates, identified through a new dating method, indicate that the fossils found at ...

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa, that were sampled in new research exploring the diet of this important ancient human ancestor.

This skull is a replica of the Robust Ape Man, discovered in 1938 in South Africa. It has been debated whether this skull belonged to Paranthropus or Australopithecus: two types of hominin.

A team led by Dr Tina Lüdecke of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry applied this to the contents of seven ...

And her remarkable species, Australopithecus afarensis, may have been our direct ancestor. Our discoveries about Lucy have transformed our understanding of humanity's tangled family tree.

Item 1 of 3 An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa, that were sampled in new research exploring the diet of this important ancient human ancestor.

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an ...