Churchill adds that "it is possible that the climbing features in the skeleton of Australopithecus sediba and other australopiths are functionally unimportant primitive traits retained from a more ...

Today, she represents the most complete Australopithecus skeleton and is helping researchers to learn more about our chimpanzee-like ancestors. “Sterkfontein has more Australopithecus fossils ...

Everybody knows "Lucy." For nearly four decades, this famous partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis, dated to 3.2 million years ago, has been an ambassador for our prehistoric past ...

Lucy‘s skeleton gave scientists their best clues yet to the proportions of Australopithecus, and revealed her to be surprisingly short-legged. But the find left no doubts that she walked erect.

The skeleton was discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson on November 24, 1974. Jenny Vaughan/AFP via Getty Images Lucy was not the first evidence of Australopithecus afarensis to be ...

Lucy' is a collection of fossilised bones that once made up the skeleton of a hominid from the Australopithecus afarensis species. She lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago. First discovered in ...

The partial skeleton was located in Ethiopia and declared ... she was from a new species of human-like ape that they named Australopithecus afarensis, meaning “southern ape from Afar.” ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. When you purchase through links on ...

All told there were several hundred fossilized bone pieces constituting 40 percent of a complete female skeleton ... indicating that Australopithecus afarensis was fully bipedal, i.e., stood ...

Lucy was the oldest and most complete skeleton of the human ancestor Australopithecus, when she was discovered half a century ago. The researchers who discovered Lucy were American, and at the ...