Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

“Seven years later,” summarizes The Times, “…a virtual reconstruction of her leg and pelvic muscles ... biomechanics ...

But evidence of when prehistoric people started eating meat has been difficult to find. Australopithecus was a hominin—a human-like mammal—that walked on two legs but had smaller brains than ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such ...

Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape similar in development to homo sapiens. Today, we will look at the facts surrounding the Australopithecus and determine whether this ...

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

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...

Lucy's fragments will be shown at Prague's National Museum as part of a 'Human Origins And Fossils' exhibition for two months ...

New research provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor, consumed meat or plant-based diet. A new study published in the American Journal of ...