This fossil femur from Olduvai confirms that the larger or robust australopithecines lived in both East and South Africa during the Pleistocene. This specimen and femora from Swartkrans in South ...

About 30 years ago, African excavations yielded the 3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton that became known as Lucy. The find, along with other fossils unearthed soon after, belongs to the species ...

Analysis of rare hominin infant fossils excavated in southern Africa reveals unexpected cranial features which add weight to the hypothesis that Paranthropus robustus is more closely related to the ...

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 ...