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

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

Today — a century on — the fossil is still prompting questions about human evolution. In his Nature paper, Dart argued that the Taung Child belonged to a previously unknown group of bipedal ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

But if Bae and Wu’s analysis is correct, these fossils could hold the key to solving one of human evolution’s biggest mysteries: a puzzle that started with the discovery of a pinkie bone in ...

New fossils provide clues How did wolves evolve into dogs? New fossils provide clues We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came from We just learned where the asteroid that ended din ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... New Fossil Discovery Sheds Light on the Early Evolution of Animal Nervous Systems Jan. 10, 2025 — An international team of scientists has ...