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

At least nine people were killed in a shooting at a tavern outside the South African city of Johannesburg during Sunday’s early hours, police have said.

JOHANNESBURG and LONDON -- At least nine people were killed early Sunday as a group of assailants opened fired with pistols ...

The president did not attend this year’s annual gathering in South Africa, which has been a frequent target of his attacks. By John Eligon Reporting from Johannesburg President Trump said on Wednesday ...

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

South Africa’s initial claim to be humanity’s home goes back almost a hundred years. In 1924, anatomist Raymond Dart found a skull of a juvenile primate among a box of fossil-bearing rocks sent to him ...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as "regrettable" the announcement by US President Donald Trump that South Africa would not be invited to take part in next year's G20 summit in ...

Because a key food source dropped to less than a quarter of its peak levels in 17 of the past 20 years, the findings could be crucial for securing the penguins’ long-term survival. Penguins living ...

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.

The textbook version of the "Out of Africa" hypothesis holds that the first human species to leave the continent around 1.8 ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.