The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

In other words, he believed it to be a so-called “missing link” in the family tree between living apes and Homo sapiens. Dart ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

The crates contained fossils that had been found at a limestone quarry some two hundred miles to the southwest, in the town of Taung ... appeared to be a cast of a skull’s interior.

Now, the Taung Child is heralded as one of the most important fossils of the 20th century, as its skeleton helped to prove that bipedalism evolved before a large brain did. Another complete skull ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

An international team of researchers report on the bird's fully preserved skull. The fossil was unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite mining area in the Geiseltal in Germany. It was initially ...

The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is in the U.S. The Geiseltal Saxony-Anhalt is located south-west of Halle and was a lignite mining area until 1993. Numerous ...