Archaeologists in Kenya have found a jawbone that is showing just that. The jawbone belongs to someone from the species ...

The skull, probably a male’s, belonged to a species called Australopithecus anamensis, an older relative to Lucy.

A facial reconstruction of the 3.8 million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis specimen found in Ethiopia in 2016. Matt Crow, courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Facial ...

What Do We Know About Australopithecus Anamensis? Other than saying the name out loud requires a large intake of breath beforehand, that is.

Other work has shown A. anamensis evidently walked upright, but there's no evidence that it flaked stone to make tools, said study co-author Stephane Melillo of the Max Planck Institute for ...

More A. anamensis skulls are needed to assess whether the Belohdelie frontal displays traits more typical of that species or of Lucy’s kind, Kimbel says.

The reconstructed face of MRD, a young male belonging to the Australopithecus anamensis. Its discovery has been called a "game changer" for our understanding of human evolution 3.8 million years ago.

Early hominin skull fills in “a major gap” in the fossil record The 3.8 million-year-old fossil reveals the face of Australopithecus anamensis.

Scientists found a 3.8-million-year-old cranium that belonged to an ancestor of the “Lucy” species. The fossil is complete enough to see its ancient face.

Early human ancestors stopped swinging in trees and started walking on the ground sometime between 4.2 and 3.5 million years ago, according to a new study.

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 ...