Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Learn how genomes from 28 ancient individuals show that Homo sapiens lived in southern Africa in near isolation for hundreds ...

A devastating collapse in sardine stocks led to the starvation of over 60,000 African penguins on South Africa's Dassen and ...

Scientists sequenced genomes from 28 individuals dated between 225 and 10,275 years old. These remains came from regions ...

An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status. Sequences of a protein derived from a ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

Although the burial mound itself was modest, a simple oval rise of earth, it held a combination of objects that would soon ...

A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black - Science Correspondent The tusks of ancient elephants came in a variety of shapes and sizes.

The domestic cat has a long, complex and uncertain history. Ancient DNA is making its origin story clearer.