Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...

For decades, scientists have believed that meat-eating drove human evolution, particularly our enlarged brains.

This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

One hundred years ago, a paper was published in the journal Nature that would radically shift our understandings of the origins of humanity. It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in ...

Moreover, their fossil record is dominated by skulls, teeth, and jaws – telling us a lot about their brain capacity, but obscuring their posture and lifestyle. That’s why the hip, thigh ...

which became known as the Taung child skull. The paper’s author, an Australian-born anatomist called Raymond Dart, argued that the fossil was a new species of hominin called Australopithecus ...