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3.7 million years ago: Did Australopithecus already live in South Africa?

At Sterkfontein in South Africa, a new analysis of sediments from the cave’s Member 4 area dated them to between 3.41 and 3.7 ...
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Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Fossils of early ...
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Australopithecus findings could rewrite how we classify millions of years of human evolution

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...
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3.3 million-year-old tools: Were Australopithecus the first toolmakers?

In 2015, stone tools at Lomekwi 3 in West Turkana, Kenya, were found dating to about 3.3 million years ago, making them the oldest known created stone tools. Their age predates the Homo genus, and the ...

In 2008, a nine-year-old spotted a fossil in South Africa: Scientists uncovered a previously unknown branch of human evolution

A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.