Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early human ancestors dating from 2.9 to 3.9 million years ago. The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans ... we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal ...

Unfortunately, Swartkrans has over the years yielded many fewer bones from the rest of the Paranthropus robustus skeleton ... from other diminutive early human species, including those represented ...

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was ...

A collection of older fossils from early human ancestors was previously found in Georgia, near the crossroads of eastern Europe and Asia. Those are estimated to be 1.8 million years old.

Since Lucy is a shared ancestor for chimpanzees as well, we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called geometric morphometrics.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new fossil discovery of Paranthropus robustus, an early human ancestor, reveals it was a habitual upright walker, similar to modern humans. The individual was ...

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of ... Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using ...