Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...
afarensis fossils along with other, anatomically distinct fossils from the same time period. These fossils belonged to a new australopithecine species: Australopithecus deyiremeda, which was dated ...
For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins, marking a milestone in the field of paleoanthropology. The study ...