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

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

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

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 ...

A newer dating technique using cosmogenic isotopes finds Australopithecus remains from the Sterkfontein ... An analysis of bone fractures in the famous hominid’s fossil remains suggest that she ...

a tiny human made it to the fossil record. Despite much research there is uncertainty over what could have led to their death. A fossilised skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, best known by her ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy ... are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the food consumed by an individual ...

Ever since the discovery of Australopithecus africanus and the recovery of associated ... age of the site is determined by correlating the fossil animals found with those found at sites with ...

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa ...