Scientists previously thought Australopithecus anamensis lived before other early hominin species. But the 3.8 million-year-old skull shows that there wasn't a linear transition from one species ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.

About 3.8 million years ago, a distant human relative took his final steps. Swept into a river delta, his head was buried in sand that, over time, hardened into a stone helmet. The skull ...

The entire argument is simply that australopithecine skulls look like they could take a punch. In Morgan and Carrier’s view, the heavy brows, large jaws, ...

Scans of the Australopithecus afarensis skull. Image: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig The famous 3.2-million-year-old Lucy specimen has captivated scientists since it was discovered in 1974.

And then there are the insects. Three fossilized insect eggs, each about a tenth of an inch (two or three millimeters) large, were seen within the skull, potentially hatching larvae that fed on ...

Baby steps: Ancient skull helps trace path to modern childhood. by Tanya M. Smith, Philipp Gunz and Zeray Alemseged, The Conversation ...

Dr. Donald Johanson, founding director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, talks about the discovery of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull, and what it ...

This skull is the first to “give us a glimpse of what the face of Australopithecus anamensis looks like,” Haile-Selassie said. It had a jutting jaw and lower features.