University of Sydney study suggests Australopithecus afarensis obtained over 65% of daily energy from sugary fruits to fuel ...

A trail of ancient footprints in northern Tanzania has preserved a strangely intimate moment from 3.66 million years ago ...

Around 4 million years ago, Australopithecus afarensis began walking upright on the ancient African savannah, a pivotal moment in human evolution. This unique ape, capable of standing tall, paved the ...

What separates us from the apes? Our big brains? Speech? A keen fashion sense? It's all of that and more, like the ability to ...

Bipedalism, or walking on two legs, is one of the key features that distinguishes humans from other apes. But when and why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...

"I imagine there might be some though who will be skeptical -- as is always the case." Their argument centers on a timeline: The oldest known Homo fossil, a jawbone, is dated at 2.8 million years old, ...

Remember Australopithecus sediba? The convention-challenging South African hominin, announced with much fanfare in 2010, has gotten lost in a torrent of other recent fossil finds from our family tree.

The recovery of new lumbar vertebrae from the lower back of a single individual of the human relative, Australopithecus sediba, and portions of other vertebrae of the same female from Malapa, South ...