Analysis - A team of scientists who study vertebrate fossil tracks and traces on South Africa's southern Cape coast have identified the world's first fossil pangolin trackway, with the help of ...

Visitors marvelled at the weathered limestone rocks hanging from the ceiling of South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, millions ...

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.

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

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 ...

The fossil, found 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of Cape Town in South Africa, is a new species of multisegmented arthropod that may have lived in oxygen-poor waters, according to the study ...

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