At their peak before the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cradle of Humankind caves received up to 100 000 tourists a year.

After a two-year closure prompted by safety concerns and conservation efforts, the Sterkfontein Caves—one of South Africa’s ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and argued that the skull more likely belonged to a non-human primate. Dart was ...

The mission is named after the Australopithecus fossil Lucy. The asteroids it is set to visit are the remains of what the Solar System was like billions of years ago. They are the pieces from ...

who discovered in 1974 the fossil of "Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis), one of the most important finds for understanding human evolution.