A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

In spite of its inauspicious discovery, after the skull was reassembled, Mrs. Ples became the most complete australopithecine skull ever found, dating back 2.35 million years. In 1959, an ...

The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa, by the anthropologist Raymond Dart. He found the skull of a six year old creature with an ...

Scientists think that some form of australopithecine is likely to have given rise to the next phase of human ... Exhibits include a flint handaxe possibly made by Homo heidelbergensis and a butchered ...

Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who was at a stage of development of a present-day six year old. (Early hominids, such as the Australopithecines, grew at a faster rate than ...

The first sign that there might be a different road to humanness came in the 1920s, when Raymond Dart described the fossil skull known as the Taung child. The angle at which the child's spine had ...