Having a tail that extends beyond the anal opening is a requirement of membership in the phylum Chordata, where humans and ...

With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she was one of three prominent researchers of great apes who were sometimes called the ...

Traces of early humans have been found in our backyard, but how much do you know about South Africa's Cradle of Humankind?

Scientists have finally worked out where the most common kinds of planets come from. In recent years, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets – or worlds around other stars – has shown us that most ...

Discover NIROX Sculpture Park, South Africa’s leading outdoor gallery in the Cradle of Humankind, where art and nature meet.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Scientists at Curtin University have solved a long-standing mystery about how some of the world's best-preserved fossils formed in ancient oxygen-free ocean floor settings. The research, published in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of Tanyka amnicola was discovered at the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. It has an unusual twisted jaw with ...

Fossils as a whole are rather common in DK Bananza, however they come in three types of increasing rarity: Normal Blue Fossils - These are the most commonly-found Fossil types, with most levels having ...

"There were fossils everywhere, just everywhere, in a way that I haven't seen in any other cave," said John Moretti, a University of Texas at Austin paleontologist who led the research. "It was just ...

COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST, AZ — A 25-year-old man who jumped from the Fossil Creek Lower Waterfalls into the water below has died. Multiple search and rescue teams responded to the area just before ...

John Moretti and John Young rappelled through a two-and-a-half-foot sinkhole and thirty feet down the shaft of Bender’s Cave, landing in a cramped horizontal crawl space full of soil, dead leaves, and ...