Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Whenever we think about the process of evolution ...

TOWARDS the close of 1924, Miss Josephine -*- Salmons, student demonstrator of anatomy in the University of the Witwatersrand, brought to me the fossilised skull of a cercopithecid monkey which ...

Picture this: It’s 3.5 million years ago. You’re a fuzzy, upright-walking Australopithecus, roaming the prehistoric grasslands, munching on leaves, fruits, and whatever else doesn’t require a spear to ...

In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose partial remains were found in Ethiopia in 1974 and is considered the most complete hominin fossil found to date ...

We celebrate the centenary of Nature’s announcement of the discovery of the Taung child, Australopithecus africanus, a discovery that confirmed Africa as humanity’s cradle and revolutionised ...

The date was February 3, 1925. The Star, a daily South African newspaper, featured a story on an exciting scientific discovery – the fossilized skull of a species with a mixture of human-like ...