Picture yourself at work in a quarried pit where limestone was mined using dynamite charges, just to find that after the ...

Australopithecus Africanus lived around 3.3 – 2.1 million years ago in Southern Africa, hence the name Australopithecus (Southern ape) Africanus (from Africa). Two skulls have been discovered to be ...

The Makapansgat pebble, a jasperite cobble weighing just 260 grams, bears an uncanny resemblance to a human face. What makes this stone truly extraordinary is not just its appearance, but the fact ...

New dating of sediments from the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa suggests some Australopithecus fossils are around 3.4 to 3.7 million years old, roughly a million years older than many earlier ...

What did the face of our ancestors look like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed face of “Little Foot” – the most complete biological Australopithecus specimen that ever existed. The search ...

New research suggests the famous “Little Foot” fossil may belong to a completely unknown human species. The finding challenges long-held views of early human evolution. Credit: La Trobe University The ...

In 1998, a unique fossil was discovered in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves, a site long associated with discoveries of interest to paleoanthropologists. The specimen, nicknamed “Little Foot,” was ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases. The Taung Child turns 100 years old in 2025, officially making it an antique.

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The finding also applies to Australopithecus africanus, a closely related species from southern Africa. But the two species did not share the same degree of difference. That gap between them, ...