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

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A young woman who lived nearly two millennia ago along the southern coast of England has been the center of scientific ...

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

Ancient Greek Tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse led a daring invasion of Africa, shaping Sicily’s history and influencing ...

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.