However, humans will go extinct at some time, because extinction is what happens to all species. However, there are signs that humans will go extinct soon, in geological terms. In The Decline and Fall ...

The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The find was, at the time, the most complete ever found, and revolutionised the understanding of humanity's ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

Instead, the newspaper has reported on a new study published in Current Biology, where researchers conducted a series of simulations, based on a reconstructed Lucy, to determine the speed at which ...

And, most of all, we know that 38-year-old evolutionary biomechanics researcher Dr. Karl Bates would absolutely wreck an Australopithecus afarensis in a 100-meter race, no question. We may earn ...

Dart’s find was described in newspapers all over the world, and he became famous overnight. But it took decades and the discovery of more australopithecine fossils in South Africa before ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...

The specimen of “Australopithecus afarensis,” known as Lucy, was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. It was the most complete and hominid ever found at the time of discovery, revolutionizing our ...

The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The find was, at the time, the most complete ever found, and revolutionised the understanding of humanity ...

and an eye socket to forehead transition that all appeared to be “remarkably” human-like. Its teeth also led Dart to determine that the skull belonged to a child. In a report published in ...