In a woodland of southern Africa, a clawed creature with “large” black eyes tucked itself under a rock and waited. Something ...

A newly analyzed rock painting may depict a 200-million-year-old extinct species, revealing a forgotten link between an.

Jackson Njau's fascination with human origins started as a curious teen growing up a few hours from one of the most famous ...

Ball pythons get to be about 4 feet long, while Burmese pythons can reach between 10 and 16 feet long as adults. However, the ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered an inquiry to establish whether previous governments led by his party intentionally blocked investigations and prosecutions of apartheid-era crimes.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail is widely considered to be among the best comedy films of all time, and it's certainly one of ...

Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite that forms when saltwater interacts with mantle rock. Although this is the deepest into the mantle scientists have ...

Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are among humans’ closest relatives. Scientists have long ...

Stone tools crafted by ancient humans between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago that were recovered from coastal South Africa's ...

The African rock python, a formidable predator native to sub-Saharan Africa, is known for its immense size, constricting abilities, and diverse diet, enabling it to consume prey much larger than ...

The South African-American physician and virologist Max Theiler, who developed the vaccine for yellow fever in 1937, was the first African-born Nobel-laureate. In 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard ...