“It’s not a normal commute,” says paleoanthropologist Marina Elliott, a post-doctoral fellow at South Africa’s University of the Witwaterstrand. She’s talking about the precarious, hour-long descent ...

Fossils of early human ancestors found in a South African cave system may be 1 million years older than first thought, according to a study published Monday. The findings published in the Proceedings ...

Robyn Pickering receives funding from the Department of Science and Technology Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences; the National Research Foundation African Origins Platform; The University of Cape ...

The five-day event was hosted by The Big 5, in collaboration with volunteers and is also known as Big 5 O-Week, which takes ...

Australopithecus sediba is one of two rare fossil specimens that the Perot Museum of Nature and Science will host Fall 2019. It's the first time the fossils leave South Africa for public display. The ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa's Rising Star cave. The skull, from a child that was 4 to 6 years old at the time of ...

Rock deposits in a cave system inhabited by early human ancestors in South Africa may be almost 2 million years younger than previously thought, a new study has found, which may cast doubt over ...

For decades, scientists have studied these fossils of early human ancestors and their long-lost relatives. Now, a dating method developed by geologists just pushed the age of some of these fossils ...