Now researchers have discovered that an Australopithecus anamensis skull found in 2016 is 3.8 million years old, making it the oldest Australopithecus skull ever found. The skull, named "MRD," was ...

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.

The Harbin skull also fits in well with a 200,000-to-260,000-year-old skull found in Dali County in northwestern China, a roughly 300,000-year-old skull found in Hualong Cave in eastern China, and ...

In spite of its inauspicious discovery, after the skull was reassembled, Mrs. Ples became the most complete australopithecine ...

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, ...

A discovery at an Ethiopian desert site of a nearly complete, 3.8-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis skull is letting researchers reconstruct what the ancient individual looked like and ...

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.

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

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 ...

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge ...

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

Reproductions of the skulls of the Taung child (left) and Mrs. Ples (right). (Image credit: PRISMA ARCHIVO via Alamy Stock Photo) In 1959, an extremely robust australopithecine was discovered by ...