Australopithecus Africanus — today known as the Taung Child. The fossil, named after the small town near where it was found, led to the understanding that humans and their ancestors ...

Seven of the sample teeth were from Australopithecus africanus, and the remainder were from five other mammalian families. They then did the same with teeth from several modern species ...

After carefully chipping away the excess limestone and analyzing the uncovered skull, he found that it was missing certain ...

The teeth of some Australopithecus species ... but its brain was larger than that of the Australopithecus africanus. Their fossils were found with mammals that lived in dry grasslands.

According to a recently published study, early human ancestors, specifically Australopithecus africanus ... isotopic analysis on fossilized teeth found in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves ...

The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus ... nitrogen in the Australopithecus teeth aligned closely with fossils of ...

An illustration of two of the seven molars from Australopithecus, unearthed in South Africa ...