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 ...

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 ...

Mark Thiessan/National Geographic Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about an early hominin. Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the ...

For two and a half years, the "Cradle of Humankind" has been closed. Now, the caves deemed by scientists to hold the key to understanding where humans came from, are open again to anyone visiting ...

A stunning archaeological find in China has sent shockwaves through the scientific community after experts revealed the Yunxian 2 skull could completely rewrite the story of human origins. The ...

Attendees will be transported to South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind, the site of the largest concentration of human ancestral remains in the world, during a lecture by paleoarchaeologist and ...

Rock deposits in a cave system inhabited by early human ancestors in South Africa may be almost 2 million years younger than previously thought, a new study has found, which may cast doubt over ...

KARONGA, Malawi (Reuters) - The latest discovery of pre-historic tools and remains of hominids in Malawi's remote northern district of Karonga provides further proof that the area could be the cradle ...

The savannas of Africa may have become the cradle of human evolution millions of years earlier than thought, researchers suggest. These rolling grasslands would have nurtured our ancestors through ...

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Beccy holds a PhD in Biological Science, a Master’s in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors, and a Bachelor’s in Human Biology and Forensic Science.