An international team of paleontologists unearthed fossilized bones of a new species of lovebird from three caves in the South African UNESCO World Heritage site known as the Cradle of Humankind. Life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following the reopening of the Sterkfontein Caves, visitors will be able to gain an even more direct insight into the scientific ...

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 ...

Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng Molefe swept ancient soil into a blue dustpan, each ...

South Africa's iconic Sterkfontein Caves, part of the Cradle of Humankind, have reopened to the public after three years. Tourists can now witness real-time archaeological excavations at the site ...

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 ...

Nkhensani Manganyi Nkosi, actress and founder of hip fashion label Stoned Cherrie I’d start with a picnic at the Cradle of Humankind — caves where some of the earliest human remains have been found.