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

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

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, jaws, and digestive systems were well-adapted to consuming a variety of ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

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 ...

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