And we did not find this pitting in the southern Africa species Australopithecus africanus, despite a large sample of more than 500 teeth. However, it does appear in the earliest Omo ...

And we did not find this pitting in the southern Africa species Australopithecus africanus, despite a large sample of more than 500 teeth. However, it does appear in the earliest Omo Australopithecus ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Sequencing of enamel proteins from four Paranthropus robustus teeth, dated to 1.8–2.2 million years ago, enabled identification of biological sex and revealed ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins, marking a milestone in the field of paleoanthropology. The study ...

Australopithecus africanus ©José Braga; Didier Descouens / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license - Original / License Many specimens of this species have been unearthed.

Madupe and her team have been working to recover traces of proteins from hominin fossils in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind, where at least six hominin species lived, including A. africanus (3. ...

The skull and braincast of the first Australopithecus africanus fossil, known as the Taung Child. Credit: Patrick Landmann/Science Photo Library. On 7 February 1925, Nature published an article ...

Australopithecus inhabited eastern and southern Africa from roughly 4.2 to 1.9 million years ago. Our species Homo sapiens appeared roughly 300,000 years ago. The seven individuals studied were ...

New research shows Australopithecus, an early human ancestor, likely consumed little to no meat, challenging previous assumptions.

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa, that were sampled in new research exploring the diet of this important ancient human ancestor.

Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the ...