For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape similar in development to homo sapiens. Today, we will look at the facts surrounding the Australopithecus and determine whether this ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry suggests that early human ancestors of the genus Australopithecus ...

TOWARDS the close of 1924, Miss Josephine -*- Salmons, student demonstrator of anatomy in the University of the Witwatersrand, brought to me the fossilised skull of a cercopithecid monkey which ...

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of ...

More than 3 million years ago, the early hominins from which humanity emerged bipedally propelled themselves forward, perhaps in pursuit of food, to evade a predator, or as a form of playful ...