Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to ...

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

Accountability group says Vince Bantu, an expert in ancient African Christianity, is justifying adultery with an argument for ...

A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

The world map we see today has grown through the efforts of many explorers who have charted new boundaries, continually ...

Rsearch fellow Laura Cinti talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about her quest to find a female version of the ...

By Stephen Beech via SWNS A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art may have been inspired by a ...

The baobab tree is known as the “tree of life” and its fruit is feeding a growing global market for natural food and beauty products. But the people picking the fruit in rural Africa say they are ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...