Australopithecus anamensis, abbreviated as Au. anamensis, lived between about 4.2 million and 3.8 million years ago. The primates sported a mixture of traits both primitive and humanlike.

In a remarkable evolutionary windfall, fossil hunters have discovered neatly fitting halves of a nearly complete, 3.8-million-year-old hominid skull. This unexpected specimen shines some light on ...

The remains of A. anamensis have been recovered in two countries – Kenya and Ethiopia – in regions that are thought to have been forested at the time the species was alive, and also surrounded ...

Paleontologists have discovered an almost-complete skull of Australopithecus anamensis, which has previously only been known from some jawbones, teeth and bits of leg bones. The new find allowed ...

The results identify the skull as belonging to a male Australopithecus anamensis. The hominin species is theorized to have vanished a bit earlier than 3.8 million years ago after giving rise to a ...

According to Nature, the scientists who discovered the skull say it was a male and belongs to a species called Australopithecus anamensis. That ancestral species is the oldest known member of ...

The international team dated it to 3.8 million years ago and, based on the morphological features, say it belongs to a male Australopithecus anamensis. This is a poorly understood early hominin ...

A nearly complete cranium from Ethiopia reveals the face of Australopithecus anamensis, the oldest known species of Australopithecus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

You'll feel that the thumb side doesn't assume a great role." The scientists observed that the Australopithecus anamensis wrist bones exhibited pressure loads associated with modern arboreal animals.

Scientists now know that the species lived at the same time as Lucy. Researchers have discovered a "remarkably complete" cranium of a human ancestor dating back 3.8 million years. The fossil ...

said the discovery helps fill a critical gap in information on the earliest evolution of the Australopithecus group. The study's authors said the finding indicates A. anamensis hung around for at ...

That’s because the newest fossil, the species Australopithecus anamensis, was found in the region of the Middle Awash — where seven other human-like species spanning nearly 6 million years and ...