Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained in rocky, often layered outcroppings called ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

The Out of Africa theory describes how early human species evolved in Africa before migrating across Eurasia and beyond. This ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In recent ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

That 3I/ATLAS is the main topic of conversation in the scientific world in recent months is evidence. The comet is getting ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ...

Earlier this year, Jaco Lochner argued that claims that “whites own most land” in South Africa are unverified. Without a national cadastre, ownership remains un ...

Critical illness poses a significant global health challenge, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries ...