The best way to test if Australopithecus was capable of endurance running at what we consider "modern" speeds is to reconstruct the skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis and simulate how they may ...

To try and answer this question, my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling. Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus ...

my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling. Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled versions of other Australopithecus skeletons. Since Lucy is ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit."you are marvelous") is globally iconic as a representation of early bipedalism (the ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

robustus skeleton from Swartkrans ... robustus, also known as a robust australopithecine due to the large size of its teeth and face. But very few fossils of the body of P. robustus have ever ...

Unfortunately, Swartkrans has over the years yielded many fewer bones from the rest of the Paranthropus robustus skeleton ... by the famous 'Lucy' (Australopithecus afarensis, about 3.2 million ...