Study shows early humans had plant-based diets Meat wasn’t a significant part of Australopithecus diet Research helps understand human dietary evolution ...

Our early human ancestor was capable of running ... died from a fall out of a tree. Seven years later, a virtual reconstruction of her leg and pelvic muscles — which are not preserved in ...

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa ...

She was believed to be the oldest human ancestor found until the discovery of "Toumai" in Chad in 2001—a skull dated to six ...

It's time to rewrite the history textbooks, as a distant new member of our ancestral family tree has been discovered. Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed ... included browsing for fruits, tree leaves and certain flowering plants ...

The finding indicates that these early human ancestors consumed a predominantly ... long arms and curved fingers used for climbing trees. "Although their brains were smaller than ours, their ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed ... included browsing for fruits, tree leaves and certain flowering plants ...

She was believed to be the oldest human ancestor found until the discovery of "Toumai" in Chad in 2001 -- a skull dated to six or seven million years old. In a 2016 study, researchers said Lucy had ...

This suggests that advanced tool-making was not a technology created by human ancestors, but one that was copied ... Recent research revealed that Lucy likely died from injuries sustained in a fall ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species ... that some people share ancestry with today. Now, researchers are trying to solve the ...