A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.

(Reuters) - 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 ...

A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of the human family tree that lacks a valid scientific name. A taxonomic study ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...

Analysis of the first fossil bee nest from the Plio-Pleistocene of South Africa suggests that the human ancestor Australopithecus africanus lived in a dry savannah environment, according a study ...

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Humans' distant ancestor Australopithecus africanus had a unique approach to raising their young, as shown in our new research published today in Nature. This knowledge is useful on several fronts.

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

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A newer dating technique using cosmogenic isotopes finds Australopithecus remains from the Sterkfontein caves to be about 1 million years older than previous estimates, potentially changing scientists ...