"This skeleton sheds light on a time period we hadn't understood well before," says Scott W. Simpson, PhD, an associate professor of anatomy at the School of Medicine, who co-authored three of the 11 ...

The first two skeletons removed from the pit were a young ... is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that it is often referred to as the Cradle of Humankind.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

New Research: Creature Combined Human, Ape Traits Researchers Thursday offered the most complete view yet of fossil skeletons from a forerunner of humankind named Australopithecus sediba that ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos sometime around 6 million years ago (mya). We begin this ...

Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million ... but possessed a relatively small ape-like skull. Lucy's foot bones show that she had similar feet to modern humans ...

He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ape-like appearance but human characteristics ... In 1997 an Australopithecus skull and skeleton was found in a cave in Sterkfontein north ...

Lead researcher Tina Lüdecke stands beside "Little Foot," an Australopithecus skeleton thought to be the most complete pre-human skeleton ... “These are still fairly ape-like, small-brained ...