The study, published in the South African Journal of Science, reports that the fossil remains and the tooth of ...

Fossils unearthed in South Africa turn out to be of an extinct human cousin that used to stand upright and was vulnerable to ...

Hundreds of Australopithecus fossils have been found at the Sterkfontein caves since the first was discovered in 1936, reports the Post. “But it’s hard to get a good date on them,” study coauthor ...

South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, home to early human fossils, reopened after three years, offering tourists a chance to ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...

Explore the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa, home to ancient human ancestors and groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

The fossils, named Australopithecus anamensis, were 4.1 million years old. “This has been a fascinating 40 years to be in paleoanthropology,” says Johanson, “one of the great times to be in ...

With the discovery of several more Australopithecus fossils in 1936 and 1947, this time of adult specimens, Dart's view began to see acceptance.

Subsequent discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis and associated ... where the age of the site is determined by correlating the fossil animals found with those found at sites with known ...

confirming that Australopithecus africanus had indeed walked upright and placing Africa firmly on the map of early hominin hunters. Scientists began unearthing hundreds of hominin fossils in and ...

Lucy and other members of her species, Australopithecus afarensis ... Estimating the age of hominid fossils is usually a painstaking, two-part process, involving both "absolute" and "relative ...