Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

A large international team of anthropologists, evolutionary theorists, biologists, and historians has identified gender and ...

Found in 1979, Lucy represented the species Australopithecus afarensis and lived 3.2 million years ago. The freshly dated fossils also belong to the genus Australopithecus, an ancient hominin that ...

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

These newly discovered dates, identified through a new dating method, indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves date from the very beginning of the Australopithecine era, rather than ...

Fossil footprints by Australopithecus afarensis - an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago in the Pliocene of East Africa. These footprints are not ...

In a glass case at the vault’s centre, resting on blue velvet, is Little Foot, the near-complete remains of a member of the species Australopithecus prometheus. Mrs Ples’s unearthing was the ...

One of the most famous fossils in human evolutionary history is known as "Lucy," who belonged to an extinct species called Australopithecus afarensis—an early relative of Homo sapiens who was ...

Jan 16 (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 ...