Australopithecus sediba. A Texas A&M anthropologist who recently helped discover two never-before-seen skeletons of a human ancestor will speak about the findings on the University of Colorado campus ...

The Au. sediba bones are important for their vintage — they date back to the moment about 2 million years ago when the genus of human ancestors known as Australopithecus was just giving way to a ...

The fossil hands of Australopithecus sediba (around two million years old) and Homo naledi (around 250,000 years old) show that these South African hominins may have had different levels of ...

Australopithecus sediba lived approximately 2 to 1.8 million years ago and were discovered in the Malapa region of South Africa. They were also bipedal and retained climbing ability.

One is the hand of Australopithecus sediba, first discovered in 2010 at the site of Malapa and dated to approximately two million years old. The other hand skeleton is from the more recent, ...

Australopithecus sediba was discovered near Johannesburg in 2008. ... As noted already on the skull and other areas of the skeleton, the mandibular remains show similarities with other australopiths.

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

But sediba calls that sensible-sounding idea into question. Its skull may be small, but the pelvis of the female was already human-like, without the flat, flaring look of those belonging to other ...

Our hands can reveal a lot about how a person has lived – and that’s true for early human ancestors, too. To study how ancient humans used their hands, scientists used 3D scanning to measure ...

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.

Fragmentary remains of two ancient human relatives, Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, were carried aboard a Virgin Galactic flight on Sept. 8. Departing from Spaceport America in New Mexico ...