The fossil record for the ancient hominin A. sediba is younger than that of Homo, a “highly unlikely” scenario for a direct lineage. Tailored nucleic acid extraction and amplification methods help ...

Baptised Australopithecus sediba, the partially fossilized specimens -- an adult female and a juvenile male -- were found in 2008 in a cavern 40 kilometres (24 miles) from Johannesburg. "They, ladies ...

The results of the study also state the presence of arboreal locomotion in Australopithecus sediba—a still little-known species—and in Paranthropus boisei, a fossil hominin that has aroused a ...

They are richest single fossil deposit for our hominin ancestors. Another find was Australopithecus sediba 3, discovered near Sterkfontein dated to 1.977 million years ago. Dominic Stratford ...

Researchers Thursday offered the most complete view yet of fossil skeletons from a forerunner of humankind named Australopithecus sediba that lived 2 million years ago. (Photo: Lee R. Berger ...

Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape similar in development to homo sapiens. Today, we will look at the facts surrounding the Australopithecus and determine whether this ...

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

distinctive species called Australopithecus sediba. "We don't yet know whether they interacted directly, but their presence raises the possibility that these ancient fossil humans evolved ...