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 ...

South Africa’s Pleistocene sites rank among the most important in the world for the study of human origins. Concentrated ...

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found ...

Sonora native Debi Bolter shared the latest discoveries from what’s considered to be one of the world’s most important fossil sites for understanding human origins during a presentation Tuesday in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following the reopening of the Sterkfontein Caves, visitors will be able to gain an even more direct insight into the scientific ...

An international team of paleontologists unearthed fossilized bones of a new species of lovebird from three caves in the South African UNESCO World Heritage site known as the Cradle of Humankind. Life ...

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.” Kenya’s Homa ...

A few years ago, Lee Berger almost died when squeezing into a cave system in the so-called Cradle of Humankind.

Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"? It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that ...

Visitors engage with artefacts at the exhibit. Robyn Walker, Author provided (no reuse) Picture your typical human evolution museum display. You walk into a dimly lit space with glass boxes on white ...

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