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 researcher Dr. Karl Bates would absolutely wreck an Australopithecus afarensis in a ...

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 ...

TOWARDS the close of 1924, Miss Josephine -*- Salmons, student demonstrator of anatomy in the University of the Witwatersrand, brought to me the fossilised skull of a cercopithecid monkey which ...

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