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 ...

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 ...

New research provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor, consumed meat or plant-based diet. A new study published in the American Journal of ...

Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an ...

A composite skeleton and an array of other bones belonging to multiple members of a previously unknown hominin species(Courtesy John Hawks/Wits University) When ...