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

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

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

Researchers have found that domestic cats “did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers [in West Asia]” as earlier ...

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

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than previously thought, starting with evolutionary changes in its bite.

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has become the first African to top the ArtReview Power 100 ranking. This comes after he ...

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

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

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...