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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...