A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry suggests that early human ancestors of the genus Australopithecus ...

Experts Determine the Gender of an Extinct Hominin Species by Extracting Protein From Teeth Enamel of a Fossil Experts ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...

Scientists have used ancient proteins to determine the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old human relative, revealing new ...

However, humans will go extinct at some time, because extinction is what happens to all species. However, there are signs that humans will go extinct soon, in geological terms. In The Decline and Fall ...

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...