Our brains are designed to misjudge reality. Evolution favors survival over truth, leading to predictable errors in ...

One of the most prolific, the cave lion, roamed from Spain all the way through Eurasia and into modern-day Alaska and ... sizes and appearances inhabited Africa, the Middle East, and India.

A new study published June 18 in the journal Nature has uncovered a “huge surprise” about humans in Africa 50,000 years ago.

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He'd not have ...

While humans had long survived in savanna and forests, they shifted into everything from from dense rainforests to arid ...

Jihadist insurgencies there continue to spread as fighters have been quick to adapt to the new threat. They now use ...

Total trade between China and Africa was worth $296bn in 2024. Yet the value of what China exported west ($179bn) was much ...

Researchers analyzed over a hundred archaeological sites and environmental data to understand how early humans adapted to ...

Africa’s borders split nations, tribes, and identities. The consequences of colonial cartography still ripple across the continent.

The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for ...