Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

Fossils recently found in South Africa have proved that early hominids used their upper limbs to climb like apes, and their lower limbs to walk like humans. A study published in e-Life, by scientists ...

Scott A. Williams received funding from The Leakey Foundation. Around two million years ago an ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba, lived in what is today South Africa, nearby a cave ...