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 ...

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 ...

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

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 anthropologist Raymond Dart revealed an australopithecine skull called the “Taung child” from South Africa in 1924, for example, other experts insisted that the fossil didn’t have ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...