Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient human ancestor who lived around 3 million years ago, spent most of its time walking, instead of climbing trees like chimps.

Fossils of our earliest ancestors in the "cradle of humankind" are a million years older than previously thought, according to new research. This image shows four different Australopithecus crania ...

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

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. The study ...

The reconstructed face of MRD, a young male belonging to the Australopithecus anamensis. Its discovery has been called a "game changer" for our understanding of human evolution 3.8 million years ago.

Two-million-year-old teeth transform theory of prehistoric human evolution. ... We even found it in some Australopithecus individuals, a genus that may have given rise to both Homo and Paranthropus.

Australopithecus: Turning Point in Evolution . Sabrina Richards The Scientist July 24, 2012 AP Photo. A ustralian anatomy professor Raymond Dart was adjusting the collar of his dress suit in ...

Australopithecus sediba included a strange mix of both modern Homo and ape-like ... These skeletons began to raise questions about what we really know about human evolution and Homo origins.

The Omo collection includes teeth attributed to Paranthropus, Australopithecus and Homo, the three most recent and well-known hominin genera. This allowed us to track the telltale pitting across ...

Tuesday’s Google Doodle marks the discovery of “Lucy”, a skeleton found 41 years ago in Ethiopia that helped scientists understand the evolution of apes into bipedal humans. Named after the ...