Understanding natural history presents a profound challenge. It involves trying to grasp the undocumented progress of countless millennia, such as the evolutionary journey of various species. One ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

New research suggests that our ancestors, such as Australopithecus, consumed little to no meat, relying instead on a ...

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

The seven individuals in the study probably are members of the closely related species Australopithecus africanus. The chemistry of the food ... of the element nitrogen in the Australopithecus teeth ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans’ development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn’t start with Australopithecus, according to a new study Margherita ...

She regularly travels to Africa to sample fossilized teeth for her analysis. Wits University owns the Sterkfontein Caves and is the custodian of the Australopithecus fossils. Tina Lüdecke stands ...

A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived ... people started eating meat has been difficult to find. Australopithecus was a hominin—a human-like mammal—that walked on two legs ...

Study shows early humans had plant-based diets Meat wasn’t a significant part of Australopithecus diet Research helps understand human dietary evolution ...

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 ...

New research provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor, consumed meat or plant-based diet. A new study published in the American Journal of ...