Picture yourself at work in a quarried pit where limestone was mined using dynamite charges, just to find that after the smoke clears, there lies before you the face of a small child. It is a replica ...

South Africa’s Pleistocene sites rank among the most important in the world for the study of human origins. Concentrated ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

THE little fossil ape skull that was found at Taungs five years ago is, in the opinion of many, the most important fossil ever discovered. It is manifestly the remains of an anthropoid ape somewhat ...

The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where they fit in the tree of life remains a highly debated topic. The ...