South Africa's 'cradle of humankind' caves reopen to public Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...

The activity beneath the Earth’s surface is often undetectable to us, but it has the power to shape land masses […] ...

Countries long associated with emigration, such as Mexico and the Philippines, are now rich enough to have passed their ...

As China and Russia gain ground, the EU is recalibrating its Africa policy—blending values with economic, migration, and ...

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of history's greatest animal migrations.

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

A new study reveals that early human ancestors nearly went extinct between 930,000 and 813,000 years ago, with just 1,280 ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...