The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

It has long been established that early hominins, including the Australopithecus genus, relied heavily on plants. Their teeth ...

Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in Nature identifying a new species: Australopithecus africanus. The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung ...

New research on Australopithecus tooth enamel reveals early humans primarily consumed plants, challenging the idea of regular ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins, marking a milestone in the field of paleoanthropology. The study ...

AUSTRALOPITHECUS The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa, by the anthropologist Raymond Dart. He found the skull of a six year old ...

In a study with several other co-authors, we measured nitrogen isotopes in the enamel from fossilised teeth belonging to the ...

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...

Researchers examined fossil teeth from Australopithecus species in South Africa. These fossils, around 3.5 million years old, were found in Sterkfontein Caves.

Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern human (far right) skeletons are adapted to walking upright, but a chimpanzee's skeleton (left) isn't These features serve as useful identifiers in the ...