ARUSHA: THE wind sweeps across jagged cliffs and deep ravines at Olduvai Gorge, carrying whispers of footsteps that walked ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Playing a complex guitar solo ought to be impossible. To elicit the desired torrent of notes, the fingers of one hand must move nimbly around the fretboard, while the other hand plucks the strings, in ...

The recent discovery of a fossil in northeastern Ethiopia is rewriting understanding of early human evolution. A study in Nature 1 reveals that the partial mandible attributed to Paranthropus is dated ...

NGORONGORO: FEW places on earth inspire awe quite like the Ngorongoro Conservation Area with its spectacular beauty and natural magnificence that has captivated the Joint Permanent Commission on ...

It has long been thought that hominins – the taxonomic tribe to which humans belong – first appeared in Africa around 7 million years ago. However, researchers may have just found the remains of an ...

There's something profoundly captivating about the phrase "lost to time." Throughout history, countless treasures, cities, ...

Broom, R., and Schepers, G. W. H., The South African Fossil Ape-men: The Australopithecinae. Transvaal Mus. Mem., No. 6 (1946). Broom, R., and Robinson, J. T ...

Archaeologists raced to document the semi-fossilized tracks in eastern Scotland. They were likely made by humans, deer and other animals during the late Iron Age ...

The article presenting the research results was published online at the end of February in the journal Ichnos. The study focuses on two trackways (T1 and T2) preserved as convex hyporeliefs on the ...