Australopithecus split into several different species. Some developed powerful teeth and jaws and became known as 'robust' while others were more lightly built and dubbed 'gracile'. By around 2.5 ...

Known as Australopithecus anamensis, this ape-like creature was previously thought to have appeared after the original human forebears, yet this fossil suggests that it may actually have been a ...

Furthermore, the traditional term "australopithecine," which grouped Australopithecus and Paranthropus in the subfamily Australopithecinae, becomes invalid under this revised taxonomy; in the ...

Homo luzonensis has some physical similarities to recent humans, but in other features hark back to the australopithecines, upright-walking ape-like creatures that lived in Africa between two and ...

Ever since the discovery of Australopithecus africanus and the recovery of associated fauna indicative of open habitats, it has been posited that the origin of bipedality in our lineage had its ...

In Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, the average adult male weighed near 110 pounds and stood around 4 feet 11 inches tall. Adult females were relatively petite, weighing roughly 60 ...

"The possibility of preserved australopithecine skin is massively cool." What makes it so cool is the possibility of determining how these near humans reacted to heat. She is particularly ...

By this time, the hominid lineage had forked into two branches. One branch of the genus Australopithecus developed specializations for eating tough tubers and other hard foods—huge jaw muscles ...

A Space Odyssey (which popularized the idea of the “killer ape,” our supposedly brutal australopithecine ancestor, a notion ...

Entering the gallery, visitors meet hominins like us and our extinct australopithecine relatives, comparing them to non-hominins like the chimpanzee to explore the differences. The human lineage split ...

Australopithecus afarensis. “We knew that because it was so complete it was important, but I didn’t realise it would actually launch a new species,” says Johanson. Lucy’s anatomy provided ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...