The KwaXolo Caves, a key tourism attraction on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, is undergoing an R8 million expansion aimed at ...

"Our findings emphasize the need for conservation efforts." Scientists stunned after finding rare species lurking in ...

Wadley et alResearchers believe fragments found inside South African cave sediment are remnants of world’s oldest known bed. About 200,000 years ago, humans took refuge in a cave in what is ...

Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...

Deep below the Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue and green.

Marina stood at the mouth of the Rising Star cave and looked inside. Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and ...

100,000 Years AgoPerched near Africa's southern tip, Blombos Cave has yielded some of the earliest evidence of symbolic expression, including shell beads, engraved ocher, and ocher-processing kits ...

The Sahara is very likely the world's largest art museum with hundreds of thousands of elaborate engravings and paintings adorning rocky caves and ... change across North Africa from the hyperarid ...

Scientists are using these fluorescent features to understand how the caves formed and how life is supported in extreme environments, which may reveal how life could persist in faraway places ...