He writes: "Since the above letter was written two weeks ago, four more teeth of Australopithecus have been discovered. Two are teeth of a very aged animal with the crowns almost completely worn off.

Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient human ancestor who lived around 3 million years ago, spent most of its time walking, instead of climbing trees like chimps.

The bone breccia found in most caves has proved to be of Pleistocene age, and if the Taungs cave is also of this period, then Australopithecus would be too recent to be a possible human ancestor ...

Australopithecus who? And exactly how is this Homo naledi character related to me? A team of scientists discovered this new species of human relative in fossils retrieved from a cave near ...

Meet Australopithecus deyiremeda – a newly discovered species of hominin, found in Ethiopia, that sheds light on our earliest ancestors, scientists say.

Australopithecus has been one of the captivating traits in determining Human ancestry. The most recent update is derived from the study of the skull, which was discovered in Ethiopia. It provides ...

Now researchers have discovered that an Australopithecus anamensis skull found in 2016 is 3.8 million years old, making it the oldest Australopithecus skull ever found.

Original Object Holding Institution National Museum of Ethiopia (Ethiopia) Location of Discovery Hadar, Ethiopia Site Hadar, Ethiopia Data Source NMNH - Anthropology Dept. Original Object Identifier A ...

The Australopithecus africanus specimen is the oldest hominin analyzed for sex using palaeoproteomics.

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 ...

The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.

Some researchers hypothesize that the incorporation of animal-based foods in early hominin diets led to increased brain size, smaller gut size, and increased stature.