One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the ...

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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 ...

For the first time, scientists identified the sex of a 3.5-million-year-old Australopithecus africanus using ancient proteins ...