Chad, which holds a presidential election on May 6, has been ruled by the same family for more than three decades.

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

The students used calipers to measure and quantify bony protrusions on skulls from five ancient periods of human species; ...

Earth asteroid Dinkinesh last November, it discovered that Dinkinesh had a companion — a little moonlet that astronomers soon named Selam. And now, scientists have measured Selam's age. Their estimate ...

Strictly speaking, our next stop on the walk through time should have been a 3.4-million-year-old site called Maka, which had yielded a jaw and some other remains ofAustralopithecus afarensis.

Subsequent discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis and associated fauna appeared to corroborate this hypothesis. However, the ecological contexts of the earliest hominins suggest that the link ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by the question of humanity's earliest ancestors and the way in which we evolved from ...

Below is a personal account of my field experiences at Laetoli, Tanzania, a site made famous when Dr. Mary Leakey and her team discovered fossilized footprint trails of Australopithecus afarensis ...

NASA's spacecraft Lucy has discovered a celestial object: asteroid Selam. This cosmic revelation enhances our understanding of universe, revealing a celestial toddler who defies age assumptions.

Notes: *For example, the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis was believed to have speciated via anagenesis from Australopithecus anamensis. However, the new data modelling suggests they ...

(For example, the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis was believed to have speciated via anagenesis from Australopithecus anamensis. However, the new data modeling suggests they overlapped ...

Other remarkable fossils of Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, were later unearthed at other sites. Together, they offer a picture of one of our earliest human ancestors. Learn how ...