UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

Subsequent discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis and associated ... Homoplasy: A trait shared by different species due to shared function rather than shared ancestry, i.e. the trait is not ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

By the 1970s, anthropologists were beginning to recognize that there was not just one Australopithecus species, but many. The fossils indicated that these australopithecines stood and walked ...

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

Lucy, our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of the species Australopithecus afarensis, may not have won gold in the Olympics – ...

It belonged to a juvenile member of the species Australopithecus africanus who was later nicknamed the Taung Child. The skull conclusively demonstrated that Africa was the birthplace of humankind.

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 ...

In a study published in Current Biology, researchers have revealed that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient hominin species, exhibited a limited capacity for running. This small bipedal ancestor, ...

The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...