In 1934, paleontologist Robert Broom set out to find the first fossil of an adult Australopithecus. Discovering a grown-up version of Raymond Dart’s Taung Child, the first Australopithecus specimen ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

In the arid landscapes of the Afar region in Ethiopia, a series of bones dating back 3.4 million years could shake up what we ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. David Green of Midwestern University explains what a recent find reveals about how Australopithecus lived. David J. Green is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy in the ...

That’s kind of the state of affairs in human evolution, especially now that a new branch of the clan has crawled out of some anthropological backwater and horned its way into the party.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Everything we know about the group of human ancestors called australopiths comes from just a few dozen fossils. But a skull discovered in Ethiopia ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

The diet of Australopithecus anamensis, a hominid that lived in the east of the African continent more than 4 million years ago, was very specialized and, according to a new study, it included foods ...

New fossils from Kenya suggest that an early hominid species -- Australopithecus afarensis-- lived far eastward beyond the Great Rift Valley and much farther than previously thought. An international ...