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

They collected this material from the tooth enamel of an Australopithecus africanus individual whose remains were found in a South African cave decades ago. The method they used, called ...

The wear of the teeth suggests that A. africanus ate fruits and foliage. Believed to be roughly the same size as A. afarensis, A. robustus had a large, "robust" (heavier, thicker) skull ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

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