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 ...

The discovery is changing our understanding of Australopithecus, an ancient hominin. Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, ...

An ancient human relative was able to walk the ground on two legs and use their upper limbs to climb and swing like apes, according to a new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils.

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.

"Australopithecus was a very primitive, ape-like early human," said biological anthropologist Craig Stanford at University of Southern California, who edited a book on meat eating and human evolution.

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 skeletons of Australopithecus sediba.The more complete skeleton of the adolescent male (MH1) is on the left, and the less complete adult (MH2) is on the right. From Berger et al, 2010.

Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis is commemorated today in a Google Doodle that recalls a picture that she helped show had a big problem.. The picture shows Lucy standing in the middle of a ...

She got permission to take samples from Australopithecus remains found in a South African cave, and used a dental drill to nab bits of tooth enamel from teeth that belonged to seven individuals.

You may be more familiar with Au. anamensis’ younger relative, Australopithecus afarensis.The most celebrated Australopithecus, Lucy, discovered in 1974, was a member of this species. Au ...

An ancient human relative was able to walk the ground on two legs and use their upper limbs to climb and swing like apes, according to a new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils.