Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The fossilized remains of one of the smallest known human relatives have been unearthed in South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short — and ended up as a leopard's lunch.

This is how the enigmatic skeleton was found ... revealing the remains to be female — and likely a nun, according to the researchers. The discovery marks the first-ever archaeological evidence ...

There are no worries about them breeding like proverbial rabbits, as Hazel, the only female, is sterilised – as are two of the male rabbits. “Friends joke that our house is burglar-proof as we ...

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But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had practiced religious bodily punishment was female. Excavations of a series of crypts at the Byzantine monastery at Khirbat el ...