A synchrotron reconstruction of the cranium of the newly discovered hominid species Australopithecus sediba. (Paul Tafforeau, Lee Berger, the ESRF, Grenoble and the University of the Witwatersrand) ...

The Australopithecus sediba sculpture awaits installation later this year inside the new $261 million Biological Sciences Building. According to UM, the museum commissioned the sculpture, which is ...

Fossils belonging to Australopithecus sediba were first found in 2008, ... A reconstruction of the head of an *Australopithecus afarensis.* Tim Evanson / Flickr. Given data on timing, ...

Life-size sculptural reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba, an extinct human relative that roamed southern Africa 2 million years ago. Sculpture Elisabeth Dayns /Photo: S. Entressangle ANN ...

Life reconstruction of Australopithecus sediba. Elisabeth Daynes/S. Entres-sangle But that doesn’t mean it’s a missing link, as some mainstream news outlets have reported .

We named last April, 2010, a new species, Australopithecus sediba, because the holistic anatomy of these, we were able to separate them from the fossil collections of those species and in ...

An ancient human relative was able to walk the ground on two legs and use their upper limbs to climb and swing like apes, according to a new study of 2 million-year-old vertebrae fossils.

BONES OF CONTENTION A reconstruction of the curious-looking hominid Australopithecus sediba shows an unusual mosaic of body characteristics that may make it a direct human ancestor. L.

LOS ANGELES – With long arms, high shoulder blades and powerful fingers, the ancient creatures were built for climbing trees. But they also had long lower limbs, flat feet and a flexible lumbar ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan now owns what's believed to be the only lifelike reconstruction of a human relative that roamed southern Africa 2 million years ago.

The University of Michigan now owns what’s believed to be the only lifelike reconstruction of a human relative that roamed southern Africa 2 million years ago.