About 3.8 million years ago, a distant human relative took his final steps. Swept into a river delta, his head was buried in sand that, over time, hardened into a stone helmet. The skull ...

This species is considered the direct ancestor of Australopithecus afarensis, the species best known from the famous partial skeleton nicknamed Lucy unearthed in 1974 about 35 miles (56 km) from ...

Australopithecus afarensis had an ape's brain—with surprisingly human characteristics. Search. Pop ... and MRIs to recreate what the surface of the brain would have looked like inside the skull.

A “remarkably complete” skull belonging to an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago has been discovered in Ethiopia. This is the fir ...

It was also thought to precede Lucy’s species, which is known as Australopithecus afarensis. But features of the latest find now suggest that the new fossil's species shared the prehistoric ...

Declared to be a new species, Australopithecus afarensis, her skull suggests a transition from ape to human. Lucy also had ankle and foot features important to upright walking.

The oldest A. Afarensis dates back to 3.9 million years ago, meaning its existence overlapped with the species of the newly identified skull, which lived between 3.9 and 4.1 million years ago.

It is much bigger than the skull of Lucy and other females of this species, indicating there were ... Hadar, Ethiopia Data Source NMNH - Anthropology Dept. Original Object Identifier A.L. 444-2 ...

A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis is displayed as part of an exhibition that includes the 3.2 million year old fossilized remains of "Lucy", the most complete ...

Lucy, our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of the species Australopithecus afarensis, may not have won gold in the Olympics – but new evidence suggests she was able to run upright. According to ...