A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...
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 ...
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.
In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose partial remains were found in Ethiopia in 1974 and is considered the most complete hominin fossil found to date, died ...
New research suggests that our ancestors, such as Australopithecus, consumed little to no meat, relying instead on a ...
In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...
The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have ...
Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...
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