That first dig was significant — the skeleton bones included rear limbs, making it the first evidence of a land-based snake ...

No white man knew where or how King Lobengula of the Matabele had met his end. A bull elephant of a man, 6 ft. 2, and burdened with 200 wives, Lobengula was the last of the Zulu chieftains to make ...

In 2015 a new member was introduced to the family tree of humans. Fossil hominins from the Rising Star cave system outside Johannesburg, South Africa, were found to belong to a previously ...

Discovery of two-million-year-old skull in South Africa throws new light on human evolution. The fossil was a male Paranthropus robustus, a species that existed alongside our early human ancestors ...

Reconstructed child skull of H. naledi. Dark portions are inferred portions of the skull. Image: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It’s tiny, incomplete, and undeniably awesome ...

South African fossil skull reconstructed in 3D. Advertisement. The remarkable remains of two ancient human-like creatures (hominids) have been found in South Africa. The fossils of a female adult and ...

PROF. DUBOIS' comment on the skull recently discovered at Ngandong, Java, and its relationship to Rhodesian man, which appeared in NATURE for July 2, p. 20, enhances the interest with which ...

The Hofmeyr Skull. Scientists have now dated the skull as being 36,000 years old. The great similarity of this skull to skulls of the same age from Eurasian finds confirms the "Out of ...