A new analysis offossilized limb bones suggests that Australopithecus walked upright without giving up the trees. The ...

Around 4 million years ago, Australopithecus afarensis began walking upright on the ancient African savannah, a pivotal moment in human evolution. This unique ape, capable of standing tall, paved the ...

Bipedalism, or walking on two legs, is one of the key features that distinguishes humans from other apes. But when and why ...

The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in 1974. Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, which walked upright and likely ...

An analysis by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, on the manual capabilities of early hominins reveals that some Australopithecus species exhibited hand use similar to modern humans. In ...

The nearly complete brain of the ancient human relative "Little Foot" shows this ancient hominin had a small brain with a combination of ape-like and human-like features. Hominins include modern and ...

Mineral deposits found on the fossilized remains of Australopithecus sediba could be early human skin. (Courtesy Lee Berger and the University of the Witwatersrand) The 2.2-million-year-old fossils of ...

Around two million years ago an ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, lived in what is today South Africa, nearby a cave called Malapa that’s a part of the Cradle of Humankind. Until ...

New evidence from fossils representing two groups of human ancestors—Australopithecus and early Homo—adds an important piece to the puzzle about when our ancestors transitioned from a life often spent ...