Granger used the same method in 2015 to estimate that one set of Australopithecus remains found in the Sterkfontein Caves, nicknamed Little Foot, was about 3.4 to 3.7 million years old. The new study ...

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robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind. Luckily, proteins that are millions ... One of these proteins tells us the biological sex of the fossils. This is how we ...

We spent some time with fossil technicians at the Sterkfontein Caves near Johannesburg. The caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site and have yielded some of the ...

They're part of a major fossil site in South Africa known as the "Cradle of Humankind." Mark Edward Harris Scientists say early human ancestors, whose remains are in a South African cave, lived about ...

We extracted these from the enamel of the 2-million-year-old teeth of four P. robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind.