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 ...

A Bloemfontein man was arrested after police found him holding a human head, and he confessed to murder, saying he did it to ...

Learn why sardines vanished, leaving tens of thousands of African penguins starving during their annual moult along South Africa’s coast.

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

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.

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A South African man in the US went viral after butchering Afrikaans in an interview, leaving Mzansi amused as the clip sparks ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during the announcement of the results in South Africa's general elections in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday, June 2, 2024. While South Africa made ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...