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.

Hear about the discovery of Lucy's complete skull. Dr. Donald Johanson, founding director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, talks about the discovery of the first complete ...