You may be more familiar with Au. anamensis’ younger relative, Australopithecus afarensis.The most celebrated Australopithecus, Lucy, discovered in 1974, was a member of this species. Au ...

Scientists previously thought Australopithecus anamensis lived before other early hominin species. But the 3.8 million-year-old skull shows that there wasn't a linear transition from one species ...

Fossils found in Ethiopia weren’t found on the border with Kenya as might be expected. It seems A. anamensis managed to spread out, with remains recovered in the northeastern Afar region of the ...

Yohannes Haile-Selassie holds a fossilized cranium of Australopithecus anamensis from 3.8 million years ago, the ancestral species that preceded our own branch of the family tree, called Homo.

The diet of Australopithecus anamensis, a hominid that lived in the east of the African continent more than 4 million years ago, was very specialized and, according to a new study, it included ...

Modern-looking Ardipithecus skeleton may be link between that genus, Australopithecus.

Ardipithecus ramidus may have walked upright. Other fossils discovered with A. ramidus suggest that the species lived in the forest. 4.4 mya first fossils found 1992. Australopithecus anamensis ...

If so, A. anamensis — now placed at between 4.2 million and 3.8 years ago — and Lucy’s kind — dating to between 3.9 million and 3 million years ago — overlapped for at least 100,000 years.

Oldest Skeleton of Human Ancestor Found. There was never a chimp-like missing link between humans and today’s apes, says a new fossil-skeleton study that could rewrite evolutionary theory.