Although Lucy is a comprehensive specimen, the most complete individual ever found is that of Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus ...

The Sterkfontein Caves are located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site where some of the world’s most ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

It was a sharp discovery for archaeologists in Kenya. Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind ...

Casts of stone tools found at Olduvai Gorge, on display at the Horniman Museum, London. | Ethan Doyle White, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 4.0 The discovery of Homo habilis upended the human ...

The fossil nicknamed “Little Foot,” found in Sterkfontein cavern in South Africa, is at least 3.67 million years old—the oldest such specimen from the area known as “the Cradle of ...

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.

A new study examines fossil teeth of the Taung Child to hone in on its age. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the century ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa urged officials to stop the flow of sewage that’s damaging a tourist site that has the largest concentration of ancient human fossils.

The Pink fossils found in 2022 were recovered in a deeper - thus older - layer at the same site. A child's molar dating to approximately the same time is known from a site near Granada in Spain ...

But other famous fossils have given us important ... reveal secrets of human relatives found in a South ... apart while using dynamite to excavate in the Cradle of Humankind in South ...