South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

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New research confirms humans first reached the Sahul super-continent by two different routes around 60,000 years ago.

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Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic ...

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Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

A new genetic study reveals that domestic cats arrived in Europe from North Africa around 2,000 years ago, challenging the ...

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A groundbreaking discovery in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert has unearthed a forgotten African kingdom.