You don't have to do fieldwork to make the next great scientific discovery. Sometimes, amazing finds are hiding right under ...

Researchers examined fossil teeth from Australopithecus species in South Africa. These fossils, around 3.5 million years old, were found in Sterkfontein Caves.

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 ...

Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape similar in development to homo sapiens. Today, we will look at the facts surrounding the Australopithecus and determine whether this ...

A new hominin species, Australopithecus sediba (Au. sediba), was named by Berger and his colleagues, following the discovery of two partial skeletons just under two million years old, a juvenile male ...

V.D.: I don’t know. I never thought about it—like my favorite, favorite piece? I am particularly fond of the Australopithecus sediba that is the image for the show—on the promo stuff and actually the ...