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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

What we do know is that by the time our genus, Homo, emerged over two million years ago, hominins were regularly eating meat.

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.

Ardipithecus ramidus, a 4.4 million-year-old fossil, has been found to be related to human linage after many years of heated ...