A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

The youngest pilot to fly solo around the world. The first known Black female tattoo artist. And more, chosen by columnist.

Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

New fossil evidence from Romania suggests hominins reached Eurasia 200,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping human ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers breaking news and updates on Politics, Current Affairs ...

The Rwandan Government has officially announced its first oil discovery, identifying 13 reservoirs along its natural border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The landlocked African ...

However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT, have turned this idea on its head: in the past five years about 11,000 giants have been discovered. MeerKAT’s ...