Unearthed in 1998 in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, the skeleton known as StW 573, nicknamed Little Foot, is among the ...

Since the discovery of the fossil remains of Australopithecus africanus from Taung nearly a century ago, and subsequent discoveries of Paranthropus robustus, there have been disagreements about the ...

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

A nearly complete skeleton from South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, known as Little Foot, may represent a distinct branch of the human family tree that lacks a valid scientific name. A taxonomic study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital rebuild of Little Foot's face suggests unexpected ties to East African fossils and hints at selection around the eyes.

These files consist of 3D scans of historical objects in the collections of the Smithsonian and may be downloaded by you only for non-commercial, educational, and ...

After the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit, giant birds became apex predators for tens of millions of years - and humans were ...

Humans' distant ancestor Australopithecus africanus had a unique approach to raising their young, as shown in our new research published today in Nature. This knowledge is useful on several fronts.

Analysis of the first fossil bee nest from the Plio-Pleistocene of South Africa suggests that the human ancestor Australopithecus africanus lived in a dry savannah environment, according a study ...

A newer dating technique using cosmogenic isotopes finds Australopithecus remains from the Sterkfontein caves to be about 1 million years older than previous estimates, potentially changing scientists ...