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Updated June. 17, 2013
Over the past 35 years, other specimens of Australopithecus afarensis have been found that suggested a body size larger than Lucy, and even larger than Kadanuumuu.http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/06/21/4539675-lucys-great-grandfather-fo...
Updated June. 14, 2013
Scientists have long argued that Australopithecus afarensis was the only pre-human species between 3 million and 4 million years ago.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46882311/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/ancient-f...
Updated June. 14, 2013
DeSilva notes that Australopithecus does have climbing adaptations, including indications of a strong upper body, which would have encouraged climbing, ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41516815/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/foot-bone...
Updated 21 hours ago
The first specimens of the extinct species Australopithecus sediba were accidentally discovered by the 9-year-old son of a scientist in 2008, ...http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/11/17708014-humanitys-closest-ancestor-...
Updated June. 11, 2013
This image shows the skeletal right hand of the adult female Australopithecus sediba nestled within a modern human hand. The fossil hand, lacks three wrist bones and ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44438221/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/pre-human...
Updated June. 11, 2013
One Australopithecus walked next to another, while a third, smaller individual trailed behind, stepping in the tracks of one of the larger individuals.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45210980/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/human-anc...
Updated 21 hours ago
The connections between Ardipithecus and Australopithecus have been theorized since an anamensis fossil was first found in Kenya 11 years ago.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12286206/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/fossil-di...
Updated June. 9, 2013
De Ruiter of Texas A&M University and his colleagues proposed that A. sediba was the transitional species between Australopithecus africanus ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36177857/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/tree-swin...
Updated 17 hours ago
Now, Australopithecus fossils found in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar Region, Ethiopia, fill the date gap between A. anamensis (4.2 to 3.9 million years ago) ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19815236/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/scientist...
Updated June. 9, 2013
Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," is perhaps the world's most famous fossil.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49556640/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/pre-human...
