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 ...

Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in Nature identifying a new species: Australopithecus africanus. The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung ...

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...

“But after painstaking reconstruction by curator Indra Sutisna ... with the more primitive Australopithecus (109 to 149 cm) of African origin, they could not be placed within this group ...

The hyperrealistic artistic reconstruction of the female Austrolopithecus ... The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The find was, at the ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...