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Palaeontologists have turned to an unlikely source in a bid to uncover the dietary habits of some of humanity's oldest ancestors. They have studied the teeth of mole rats found in South Africa to bolster the theory that prehistoric hominins may have eaten underground bulbs and tubers, rather than meat or grass.

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I am beyond thrilled with this find. I cannot wait to read the Nature article.

'Lucy's baby' found in EthiopiaThe 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region. The female bones are from the species Australopithecus afarensis, which is popularly known from the adult skeleton ( Read more... )

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Not quite sure how appropriate this post is, but I thought it was kind of interesting and also kind of weird ( Read more... )

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds."These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared," Lee Berger, a ( Read more... )