These newly discovered dates, identified through a new dating method, indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves date from the very beginning of the Australopithecine era, rather ...

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.

Humans Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Australopithecus Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor.

This skull is a replica of the Robust Ape Man, discovered in 1938 in South Africa. It has been debated whether this skull belonged to Paranthropus or Australopithecus: two types of hominin. Attie ...

Australopithecus inhabited eastern and southern Africa from roughly 4.2 to 1.9 million years ago. Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago.

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The study determined the diet of seven Australopithecus individuals from South Africa dating to between 3.7 and 3.3 million years ago based on the chemistry of their tooth enamel.

Long before humans acquired an appetite for meat, one of our earliest hominin ancestors — Australopithecus — stuck to a vegetarian diet. The ancient hominin, living in eastern and southern Africa ...

Australopithecus inhabited eastern and southern Africa from roughly 4.2 to 1.9 million years ago. Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago.

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to determine ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy, which was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and is about 3.2 million years old. Lucy, likely female, stood about one meter (3.5 feet ...