The Omo-Turkana Basin, where the Omo River drains into Lake Turkana in Africa, has been one of the three most valuable ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

A fossilised colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It’s the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...

In an incredible discovery, scientists have uncovered what they believe is the oldest animal ever found on Earth. Known as ...

Cover; Title; Copyright; Index; Introduction; Eustasy; Milankovitch cycles; The breakup of Gondwana; Vicariance; The terminal Cretaceous extinction event; Regional ...

It was exactly 50 years ago on Nov. 24, 1974 that white men from America, France and Britain on a scientific expedition in Africa “discovered” the 3.2 million year-old fossils of who they called “Lucy ...

Ever since the times of the world's oldest civilizations, humans have dreamed of mythological creatures. Big and small, legendary creatures have remained a part of the human consciousness for ...

An artistic rendering of an evening approximately 252 million years ago during the late Permian in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes several saber-toothed gorgonopsians and beaked ...