We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

After nearly three years of closure due to flooding, the world-renowned Sterkfontein caves—part of South Africa’s Cradle of ...

Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

To try and answer this question, my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling. Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus ...

my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling. Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus skeletons. Since Lucy is ...

The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis were discovered ... parts of the pelvis and femur. The fossilised skeleton of the 1.1-metre-tall, 29-kilogramme Lucy last left Ethiopia ...

Lead researcher Tina Lüdecke stands beside "Little Foot," an Australopithecus skeleton thought to be the most complete pre-human skeleton ever found. The specimen was uncovered in the ...

Lucy, our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of the species Australopithecus afarensis ... To create these simulations, Lucy’s skeleton was combined with muscular features seen in modern-day apes ...

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 ...

But about 40 percent of Lucy’s skeleton was recovered ... s Lucy was identified as a member of a new species called Australopithecus afarensis. The debate over whether she was our ancestor ...

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 ...

By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the founding member of a previously unrecognized species, Australopithecus afarensis. On the 50th anniversary of her partial skeleton ...