New burial dating work at South Africa’s Sterkfontein caves is discussed as pushing key deposits to between about 3.41 and 3.7 million years old. The implications are explored for how ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

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