Many fossils found in the early 20th century were given a quick glance before being labeled and stored, but a second look often yields surprises.

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

General Secretary of the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa), Comrade Akhator Joel Odigie, explains why he believes electricity privatisation is ...

Our countries are dependent on imported fossil fuels. Their volatile prices hold our economies hostage, fluctuating to the ...

Two Ju/'hoansi master trackers from Namibia helped identify Ice Age lion tracks at three sites on South Africa's Cape coast, ...

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the ...

Africa boasts up to 25% of Earth’s animal and plant species. This diversity is driven by varied habitats: harsh deserts, vast ...

Today, the Abu Tartur Plateau in Egypt is a dry, rugged desert. Around 80 million years ago, however, this same landscape lay beneath a productive tropical sea. Fourteen fossilized teeth belonging to ...

A new species of dinosaur—a long-clawed predator the size of a large tiger—has been discovered by a UCL-led team from a ...

Wildlife populations monitored across Africa have declined by an average of 80 percent over the past five decades, according to a major new assessment by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which ...

As she prepares to retire from the University of Cape Town, the palaeobiologist reflects on apartheid-era barriers, ...