A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

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.

The fossils' age is unknown, but they could be more than 2.5 million years old. Or they could be relatively recent - in the grand scheme of things. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 200,000 years ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

A recent study published in Quaternary Research describes the discovery and identification of possible aardvark tracks and burrow sites in Pleistocene aeolianites on the South African Cape coast.

After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Sandiso Mnguni receives funding from the GENUS: DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences (Grant 86073). He is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Council Plant Health and Protection ...