For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

Analysis of fossils belonging to early hominins that lived around 3.5 million years ago, from Sterkfontein Caves near ...

South Africa’s limestone caves, such as Sterkfontein often hold the fossilized skeletons of hominids who fell into holes or were dragged underground by predators. Adrian Melia / www ...