The ancient hominin fossils were discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves, 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, that form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Cradle of Humankind.

Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind.” Kenya’s Homa peninsula is home to several artifacts of ...

The complex is housed within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, a rich source of artefacts for palaeontologists since it was first discovered. "My aim is to find important bones here ...

(Purdue University photo/Lena Kovalenko) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating ...

A generation of kids grew up on those adventures, but around the same time paleontologists were discovering a Little Foot of their own in the Cradle of Humankind. While not quite as old as the ...

The Rising Star Expedition – a team consisting mostly of women – has been delving deep into the Cradle of Humankind’s caves looking for fossils. A two-million-year-old fox fossil has been ...

The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists ...

Early human fossils dug up in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa may be more than one million years older than thought, a new dating process suggests. The Unesco World Heritage Site ...

The earth doesn't give up its secrets easily -- not even in the "Cradle of Humankind" in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades ...