For decades, the narrative of early humans evolution has been closely tied to the rise of meat consumption, thought to have fueled brain development and advanced tool use. However, groundbreaking ...

Ancient Humans Had a ‘Herbivorous’ Diet, Nitrogen in Fossils Revealed a Lack of Meat Consumption Recent examinations imply ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany published ...

A LARGE monograph on the South African Australopithecines is being prepared, and is well advanced; but as it cannot possibly be published, at the earliest, for some months, it may be well to give ...

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Departmental spokesperson, Wisane Mavasa, said the dam has, for the past few months, been on a downward spiral with the department making plans to release water from the Sterkfontein Dam into the ...

Recent rainfall has boosted the water levels of the Vaal dam significantly, with plans to fill the dam with water from Sterkfontein dam no longer necessary. Over the past few months, as the Lesotho ...