Simulations of Australopithecus hominins’ anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing ...

Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group of ancient hominins that lived in what is now Africa more than two ...

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...

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The article ‘ A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date ’ by Amélie Beaudet and Dominic Stratford was originally published on The Conversation and has been ...