His father was part of the team that uncovered South Africa's most famous find, a skeleton dubbed "Little Foot", in the caves. Deriving its name from the size of the bones first discovered in the ...

For a long time, scientists believed that modern people evolved in a specific "cradle of humankind" in East Africa, some 200,000 years ago. But more recently, researchers used high-tech methods to ...

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 ...

Students outside the Maropeng exhibition center, located in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, in Gauteng Province, South Africa, on June 7, 2024.

The study, which used sediment analysis, palaeo-magnetism and uranium-lead dating, found deposits at Bolt’s Farm in the Cradle of Humankind, about 31 miles north west of Johannesburg, to be ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa's Rising Star cave. The skull, from a child that was 4 to 6 years old at the time of ...

The study, which used sediment analysis, palaeo-magnetism and uranium-lead dating, found deposits at Bolt’s Farm in the Cradle of Humankind, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north west of ...

Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"? It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize ...