A newly identified fossil discovered in the ancient shale of South Africa, has stunned paleontologists with its rare ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

After a three-year closure due to flooding, South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have reopened ...

A temporary exhibit of the fossils has been set up at the museum, where visitors will also get a chance to see “Mrs Ples”, ...

Explore the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa, home to ancient human ancestors and groundbreaking scientific discoveries.

Here’s how the story of the Taung Child fossil skull is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry ...