Scientists have found new evidence for how our fossil human relatives in South Africa may have used their hands.

Most people have heard of at least one early species closely related to modern humans: the humble Neanderthal, a widespread ...

Both ancient human species showed signs of simultaneously using their hands to move around – such as by climbing trees – as ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published an article in Nature identifying a new species: Australopithecus africanus. The 2.5-million-year-old “Taung ...

Researchers uncover new evidence of how ancient human relatives in South Africa used their hands, revealing varying levels of ...

At just over three feet tall, the nearly complete skeleton of this female Australopithecus afarensis fossil shocked the world. Named after the Beatles' hit song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ...

The fossil record for the ancient hominin A. sediba is younger than that of Homo, a “highly unlikely” scenario for a direct lineage. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food ...

A FEW months ago I sent an account to NATURE 1 of the discoveries of a number of teeth of Australopithecus. The principal of those was a beautifully preserved third lower molar, but I also had ...

The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa, by the anthropologist Raymond Dart. He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ...

Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern human (far right) skeletons are adapted to walking upright, but a chimpanzee's skeleton (left) isn't These features serve as useful identifiers in the ...

He characterized the species Australopithecus africanus and touted it as a missing link between apes and humans, a claim that was met with much skepticism as it was widely believed that human ...