In Ethiopia, an international team of researchers has discovered fossil teeth of ancient hominids, which prove that about 3 ...

Australopithecus afarensis© "Australopithecus afarensis" by Rod Waddington is licensed under BY-SA 2.0. Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented ...

A new study led by paleoanthropologists reveals that Lucy's species Australopithecus afarensis had an ape-like brain. However, the protracted brain growth suggests that -- as is the case in humans -- ...

The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than three million years ago, and occupies a key position in the hominin family tree, as it is widely accepted to be ancestral to all ...

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A sculptor's rendering of Lucy when she was alive, displayed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas (Dave Einsel/Getty Images) The 41st anniversary of the discovery of 'Lucy' has been ...

A sculptor’s rendering of our ancestor Australopithecus afarensis (Picture: Dave Einsel/Getty Images) Lucy, the world’s most famous human ancestor, was as at home walking around the grasslands of East ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie and field assistant Ali Kadir look at a hominin fossil specimen found in the Afar Rift ...