South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many ...

Into Africa? Fossils suggest earliest anthropoids colonized Africa Date: October 28, 2010 Source: Carnegie Museum of Natural History Summary: A new discovery suggests that anthropoids -- the ...

Eastern Africa's oldest human fossils are even more ancient than researchers thought, a new study suggests. The Omo I fossils are a set of Homo sapiens bones unearthed in the late 1960s, deep in ...

Fossils suggest earliest anthropoids colonized Africa New paper appearing in Nature asks questions and frames future research Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists ...

“Before the Misliya fossil, the earliest known human fossils outside of Africa were 100,000 years old,” Quam said. “This pushes that back by at least 75,000 years. ...

"The African fossil was found on the surface of a windswept desert," said Holmes. "It's definitely from the lizard genus Varanus and there are more than 50 species alive today, ...

KidsPost In South Africa, scientists are piecing together dinosaur fossils from a ‘Triassic Park’ Jonah Choinière and other paleontologists are examining finds from a vast area a shepherd ...

The oldest fossils of modern humans outside Africa have been discovered in Israel, a new study finds. The newly revealed jaw and teeth are estimated to be up to 194,000 years old. This makes these ...