For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa urged officials to stop the flow of sewage that’s damaging a tourist site that has the largest concentration of ancient human fossils.

You don't have to do fieldwork to make the next great scientific discovery. Sometimes, amazing finds are hiding right under your nose.

Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called "the cradle of humankind." ...

Seated on sandbags in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe swept ancient soil into a blue dustpan, each brushstroke hunting for hidden ...

Cradle Film Studios is a critical element of this value chain and aims to significantly enhance studio capacity in South Africa.

Whirling 360-degree photo booths have gone from red carpets to bat mitzvahs to tourist sites like the Cradle of Humankind.

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million years ago.

Judge Melanie Cradle, who has served on the Appellate Court since August 2020, will replace the Hon. William H. Bright Jr., who has been appointed to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

A temporary exhibit of the fossils has been set up at the museum, where visitors will also get a chance to see "Mrs Ples", the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus, found in South ...