Discover the Australopithecus anamensis skull, a 3.8 million-year-old find that reshapes our understanding of hominin evolution. At 3.8 million years old, this mostly complete cranium of ...

The skull, probably a male’s, is from a species called Australopithecus anamensis, as Haile-Selassie and his colleagues report in a pair of papers published Wednesday in the journal Nature. When ...

The remains of A. anamensis have been recovered in two countries – Kenya and Ethiopia – in regions that are thought to have been forested at the time the species was alive, and also surrounded lakes.