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

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

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

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 ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

In a new study, scientists have been able to use peptides taken from an ancient hominin to determine its sex – and at 3.5 ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time ...

Scientists say a new, never-before seen species of human ancestor roamed the Earth as recently as one million years ago.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. Overcrowding can lead to disaster ...