Los fragmentos óseos de Lucy, célebre antepasado humano de 3,18 millones de años de antigüedad, llegan a Europa.

M4 montage: Four different Australopithecus crania that were found in the Sterkfontein caves, South Africa. The Sterkfontein cave fill containing this and other Australopithecus fossils was dated ...

The fact that two Australopithecus species were waltzing about Sterkfontein prior to 3m years ago places the origins of Homo and its sister genus Paranthropus (a group of less brainy but more ...

Those hominids include 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, best known for Lucy’s partial skeleton. A. sediba’s relatively long arms were suited to hanging out in trees, consistent ...

A member of the Australopithecus afarensis family, the 3.2 million-year-old fossil belonged to an animal that shared characteristics belonging to both apes and humans.

Inside the mind of the Dikika child To study the shape and growth of the Australopithecus afarensis brain the researchers CT scanned the fossil skull of the Dikika child, a 3.32 million-year-old ...

Hominid fossils may shake up the human family tree By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Sept. 8, 2011 12 AM PT ...

Were Australopithecus ancestors of humans? Among debates about these hominids is the argument whether or not they could stand and walk upright like people do. William Sanders, a paleontologist at ...

Maybe she drowned. But 3.3 million years ago, a roughly 3-year-old Australopithecus afarensis died in modern-day Ethiopia. From her misfortune has sprung a wealth of knowledge.

T he Australopithecus has been around for a while now—and so has our knowledge of that human ancestor. The species Australopithecus africanus (“the southern ape of Africa”) was first ...

A diagram of how the skeletons of Australopithecus sediba came to be preserved in the Malapa cave deposit. From Dirks et al, 2010. A little less than two million years ago, in what is now South ...