In this scenario, the Black Skull was an earlier offshoot of the Australopithecus lineage that left behind no descendants and should be called Australopithecus aethiopicus.

A fossilized hominid skull found in an Ethiopian desert illuminates the earliest-known Australopithecus species.

A new fossil discovery means we’re finally able to look upon the face of our oldest ancestor. Paleontologists have discovered an almost-complete skull of Australopithecus anamensis, which has ...

A facial reconstruction of a 3.8-million-year-old Australopithecus skull_WP This skull is the first to "give us a glimpse of what the face of Australopithecus anamensis looks like," Haile-Selassie ...

A 3.8-Million-Year-Old Skull Puts a New Face on a Little-Known Human Ancestor The cranium of a male Australopithecus anamensis, a close relative of Lucy, provides clues about one of the earliest ...

High-resolution micro-CT scanning of the skull of the fossil specimen known as 'Little Foot' has revealed some aspects of how this Australopithecus species used to live more than 3 million years ago.

The find, from 3.8 million years ago, reveals the face for a presumed ancestor of the species famously represented by Lucy, the celebrated Ethiopian partial skeleton found in 1974.

The skull dates back to about the same time as Lucy, whose bones represent the species Australopithecus afarensis.

A 3.8 million year old skull from Africa is giving researchers a peek into humanity's evolutionary history, a new study suggests.

The skull, probably a male’s, is from a species called Australopithecus anamensis, as Haile-Selassie and his colleagues report in a pair of papers published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

The skull fossilized within the sandstone, to the delight of the scientists who discovered the cranium in 2016. A facial reconstruction of a 3.8-million-year-old Australopithecus skull.