A study on the teeth of ancestors to humans that lived around 3.5 million years ago suggests they ate mainly or only plants.

The earliest human ancestors weren't big meat eaters, according to new scientific research on their fossilized remains.

Nitrogen isotope analysis of tooth enamel reveals no evidence of meat consumption in Australopithecus. New research published ...

New research provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor, consumed meat ...

Counter to today's depictions of cave-dwellers feasting on raw meat, early relatives of present-day humans ate little or no meat, according to new research. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Learn about new research that examined fossilized teeth to confirm the vegetarian diets of Australopithecus, our ancestor ...

New research shows Australopithecus ate mostly plants, challenging theories about early human diets, meat, and evolution.

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Human ancestors like Australopithecus -- which lived around 3.5 million years ago in southern Africa -- ate very little to no meat, according to new research. This conclusion comes from an analysis of ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...

A study in Science analyzed nitrogen isotope ratios in fossilized tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus individuals (3.7–3 ...

A team of climate geochemists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand and Princeton ...