Because the skull predates fossils from other Homo ... Homo erectus may have played in the eventual extinction of Australopithecus sediba in South Africa," said study co-author Justin Adams ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

Australopithecus sediba was discovered near Johannesburg in 2008. The studies in Science demonstrate how our two million year old ancestor walked, chewed and moved. The fossils discovered four years ...

The fossilized skeletons of multiple Au. sediba individuals were discovered in a cave in Malapa, South Africa, in 2008, and were designated as a new species of hominid in 2010. “It is almost ...

(More recently scientists have determined that two holes in the skull were made by an eagle ... had unearthed a new hominid species, Australopithecus sediba, in South Africa’s Malapa Cave.

The skull was discovered by the team of 30 ... distinctive species called Australopithecus sediba. "We don't yet know whether they interacted directly, but their presence raises the possibility ...