Entomologists Dr Renzo Perissinotto from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Dr Philippe Moretto from France...
Dr Robert Gess from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has discovered what he says is the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana,...
A new study, published in the journal Precambrian Research, describes evidence that primitive forms of life existed on land 2.2 billion years ago.
Bright,...
A well-preserved 260-million-year-old fossil of an extinct reptile known as Eunotosaurus fills a 30- to 55-million-year gap in the turtle fossil record,...
New research appearing in six papers in the journal Science describes how the hominid Australopithecus sediba walked, chewed, and moved around 2 million...
An international team of scientists has discovered a 2-million-year-old species of fox at the site of Malapa in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage...
A new study by renowned Wits University archaeologist Prof Christopher Henshilwood provides first detailed summary of South African Middle Stone Age cultural...
Small stone blades and other tools found in a cave near Mossel Bay in South Africa have provided proof that Stone Age humans invented the technology of...
A professional paleontologist studying fossils in a collection at Harvard University has identified a new species of dinosaur.
The newly discovered species,...
An international team of scientists has reconstructed dietary preferences of three groups of early hominins from the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa.
Reconstructions...
An international team of scientists has substantially increased the age at which we can trace the emergence of modern culture, all thanks to the San people...
Paleoanthropologists at the Wits Institute for Human Evolution in Johannesburg, South Africa, have announced the discovery of a large rock containing significant...
