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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

If you were to divide the 4.5-billion-year history into a 1,000-page book, our distant ancestors, Australopithecus [think: Lucy], appear on the last page.

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.