In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

The lost world in which ancient humans lived has excited and dumbfounded scientists ... while exploring a remote South African cave, happened upon the remains of Homo naledi. This extinct hominin ...

A 444-million-year-old fossil without a shell or limbs has been discovered in South Africa with soft tissues intact.

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...