Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

South Africa’s initial claim to be humanity’s home goes back almost a hundred years. In 1924, anatomist Raymond Dart found a skull of a juvenile primate among a box of fossil-bearing rocks sent to him ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. Over the past 15 years, our research group at the African Centre for ...

These new discovered dates by using a new dating method indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves are not from near the end of the Australopithecine era but that they actually date ...

Lucy and Donaldjohanson share a special bond. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Easter Sunday certainly hasn't been a day of rest ...

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Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies. When you purchase through links on our ...

Long before Usain Bolt, long before Jesse Owens, even long before Leonidas of Rhodes, we ran. More than 3 million years ago, the early hominins from which humanity emerged bipedally propelled ...

Fossilised remains of 'Lucy', considered ancestor of the human species, was found 50 years ago Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human made it to the fossil ...

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there. When you purchase through links on our ...

News analysisFifty years after this fossil's discovery, its place in the history of humankind is still debated, while, in the meantime, other hominin species have expanded our family tree. Fifty years ...