The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...

The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 The hyperrealistic artistic reconstruction of the female Austrolopithecus afarensis (Lucy), based on finds ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time in Prague this year, the Czech premier said Tuesday.

The study determined the diet of seven Australopithecus individuals from South Africa dating to between 3.7 and 3.3 million years ago based on the chemistry of their tooth enamel.

Australopithecus inhabited eastern and southern Africa from roughly 4.2 to 1.9 million years ago. Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago.

"Our data challenge the assumption that meat was a crucial dietary component for Australopithecus, despite some specimens being found in association with stone tools and cut-marked bones," Lüdecke ...

Australopithecus possessed ape-like face proportions and a brain about a third the size of our species, as well as relatively long arms with curved fingers, good for tree-climbing.

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.

Australopithecus afarensis walked upright on two legs, making its fossils a favourite for researchers looking to unpick how bipedalism evolved in the human lineage.

Australopithecus Afarensis inhabited East Africa for about a million years, and paleoanthropologists have discovered many fossils of this species from north central Ethiopia to northern Tanzania ...