The skull found at Hadar in 1992 has no body ... and other finds all belonged to a single species: Australopithecus afarensis, the Southern Ape from Afar. Anthropologists today continue to ...

Our ancestor "Lucy," a young adult Australopithecus afarensis, became world-famous ... Another complete skull from an adult A. africanus was nicknamed Mrs. Ples after its original genus ...

Can they run fast enough, and far enough? Our team's research modeled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out how well they could run. Australopithecus afarensis ...

THOUGH the brain of the young Australopithecus is about 500 c.c ... and of the beautiful female skull about 415 c.c, it has been suspected that some male brains may have been very much larger.

he found a fossilized mold of a brain and a matching child’s skull partially buried in stone. Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in ...

Believed to be roughly the same size as A. afarensis, A. robustus had a large, "robust" (heavier, thicker) skull, as well as a jaw and large teeth that were well adapted to chewing. Like some ...

In her current shape, Lucy consists of fossilised dental remains, skull fragments, parts of the pelvis and femur. The fossilised skeleton of the 1.1-metre-tall (3.6 feet), 29-kilogramme (64-pound ...