The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site where some of the world's most important fossil discoveries have been made.

The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site where some of the world’s most ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...

STS 5, a nearly complete adult Australopithecus africanus, was an important fossil find because skeptics had previously argued that the Taung Child was actually a baby chimpanzee that would have ...

Interview - "All major discoveries and impacts are born from small and consistent actions," said Dr. Tebogo Makhubela, a 2025 ...

It was the world's most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found and estimated to be nearly four-million years old. The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World ...

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 ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you’d think about the relationships between our fossil ...

A COMPARATIVE and phylogenetic study of the dentition of the extinct South African man-ape Australopithecus (Plesianthropus) transvaalensis Broom has been made by W. K. Gregory and Milo Hellman ...

Adventures with the Missing Link By Prof. Raymond A. Dart, with Dennis Craig. Pp. xv + 251 + 20 plates. (London: Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., 1959.) 25s. net.

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.