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 ...

Holding a perfect replica of one of two skulls of Australopithecus sediba (1.97 million years old), found at the Malapa dig site in 2008, Paul introduces us to palaeontological pioneers such as ...

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 ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution ...

Land reform in South Africa has followed a familiar script—conquest, displacement, and struggle. The names change, but the fights remain the same.

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans’ development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn’t start with Australopithecus, according to a new study Margherita ...

We celebrate the centenary of Nature’s announcement of the discovery of the Taung child, Australopithecus africanus, a discovery that confirmed Africa as humanity’s cradle and revolutionised ...

But scientists have struggled to determine when meat consumption began and who did it. New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that ...