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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We even found it in some Australopithecus individuals, a genus that may have given rise to both Homo and Paranthropus. The enamel pits have commonly been assumed to be defects resulting from stresses ...

Early ancestors like Australopithecus, who lived roughly 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa, mostly relied on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).