It was a traumatic experience for traders at the Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market, Mushin, Lagos, yesterday, as they counted ...

Experts applied paleo proteomics to find the gender of a fossil found in South Africa. This fossil belonged to a human relative, Australopithecus africanus, and was discovered in the Sterkfontein ...

These caves are part of the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has yielded fossils from at least six ...

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 ...

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

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. The skull that commanded Dart’s attention ...

Australopithecus Africanus — today known as the Taung Child. The fossil, named after the small town near where it was found, led to the understanding that humans and their ancestors ...

africanus in 1947, including the famous “Mrs Ples”. Anatomist Arthur Keith, once one of the biggest critics of Dart and the Taung Child, even admitted to being wrong, such was the weight of ...