The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
‘Golden’-eyed creature found burrowing at campsite in Mozambique. It’s a new species
Near a campsite in southeastern Africa, a “golden”-eyed creature sat in the sand and called out with “high-pitched notes.” ...
South Africa’s 20-million-year-old fynbos fish face final gasp
Fynbos fish, some dating back 20 million years, are disappearing from South Africa’s rivers. Conservationists warn that ...