While volcanic eruptions decimated the Karoo Basin, new fossil tracks prove that life persisted in the lush coastal Brenton Formation.

Freedman’s Cemetery is a meticulously-maintained memorial that stands and as a testament to how Dallas is still working to come to terms with its ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million years ago, a huge eruption of lava covered much of ...

A recent history of guns and empire argues that early modern Europe marked the origins of a uniquely murderous era. But the world it describes is not so different from our own and making sense of its ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

Africa’s history wasn’t shaped only by leaders, wars, or politics—geography played a brutal role. This video breaks down the ...

The M23 rebel group still controls Goma, a year after taking the main city in eastern Congo. Life has returned to normal, but ...

Former U.S. Rep. Alfred Lawson’s story illustrates the appetite that conservatives have for gerrymandering the Sunshine State ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

Ghana ends long-term stability deals and pushes a 9–12% sliding royalty, redrawing the fiscal map as gold prices soar. GoldBod expands state control: pre-emption and mandatory domestic sales add FX, ...

Jay Jones was sworn in as the first African American Attorney General of Virginia. Ghazala Hashmi was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor, the first person of Muslim faith to hold statewide office in ...