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

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

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

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

Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.

The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The find was, at the time, the ...

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 ...

Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...

A man looks at the hyperrealistic artistic reconstruction of the human ancestors in the National Museum of Prague on February 4, 2025 in Prague, on the ...