Many anthropologists assume that until our evolutionary ancestors learned to control fire to keep predators at bay, primates avoided caves. Two separate studies in Africa now indicate that some groups ...

Every day, an hour or so after sunset and just before dawn, a phenomenal assembly of primates that reside in the remote reaches of the network that makes Mt Suswa caves, takes place. The caves, ...

Chucking stones at baboons; the first hominin passtime? From The Making of Man. For the Australian anatomist Raymond Dart, the fossilized bones scattered among the caves of South Africa were ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A baboon troop regularly forages in the scrubland in and around the village of Rooiels, on the outskirts of the Cape Town metropolitan area. In ...

Partial baboon skeleton from Misgrot Cave, South Africa. This is one of the comparative assemblages the authors used in the analysis. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

Justin O’Riain may know a great deal about baboon behaviour, but ecological expertise does not confer moral authority to ...

In the collections of the British Museum in London, a mummy known simply as EA6736 sits in eternal repose. Recovered from the Temple of Khons in Luxor, Egypt, it dates to the New Kingdom period, from ...