When we speak of climate change, we often turn to satellites, technology, global frameworks, and new innovations. Yet, there ...

Fossils of Dryopithecus fontani from France, Spain, and Austria reveal a genus that may bridge Europe’s Miocene apes and Africa’s great apes. With gorilla-like faces but slender jaws, these primates ...

Madagascar's landscape tells a story of deep time: ancient rifting and geological tilting sculpted the island's dramatic ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

A famous African designer known as Alphadi has organized a peace caravan and fashion show to promote peace in the conflict-hit city of Timbuktu ...

Since being discovered in 1994, Ardi’s 4.4-million-year-old remains have been at the heart of an anthropological debate. To ...

A 2017 astronaut photo shows the islands of Dek and Daga lurking in the murky, algae-infested waters of Ethiopia's Lake Tana.

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

Analysis of a 4.4-million-year-old ankle bone supports the hypothesis that the earliest humans evolved from an ape-like ...

The energy on opening day felt less like a post-Brexit correction and more like the city snapping back into its golden ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Source: An ancient tradition helps girls in Zimbabwe fight child marriages | AP News In rural Zimbabwe, girls are reviving an ...