Inside the mind of the Dikika child. To study the shape and growth of the Australopithecus afarensis brain the researchers CT scanned the fossil skull of the Dikika child, a 3.32 million-year-old ...

Named after the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” the 3.2 million-year-old remains belong to the Australopithecus afarensis family, a species that shares both human and ape ...

Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected. The discovery is changing our understanding of ...

One of the most famous fossils in human evolutionary history is known as "Lucy," who belonged to an extinct species called Australopithecus afarensis—an early relative of Homo sapiens who was ...

Three-dimensional volumetric muscle reconstruction of the Australopithecus afarensis pelvis and limb, with estimations of limb leverage. Royal Society Open Science , 2023; 10 (6) DOI: 10.1098/rsos ...

But it turns out her species, Australopithecus afarensis, wasn't alone. In fact, as many as four other kinds of proto-humans ...

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.

Ancient human relatives ran on two legs, like modern humans, but at a much slower pace, suggest 3D computer simulations of Australopithecus afarensis 1 — a small hominin that lived more than ...

Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected. The discovery is changing our understanding of ...