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South Africa: Bloggers Take a Trip Back to Humanity's Origins
Media Club SA, 27 March 2014
Retracing our past was the perfect introduction to a group of foreign journalists and bloggers who are exploring innovation in South Africa. Read more »
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South Africa: 'Little Foot' Fossil Is Three Million Years Old
Wits University, 14 March 2014
After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly… Read more »
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South Africa: Uncovering South Africa's Latest Fossil Find
SA Info, 8 November 2013
Excavations will soon begin on a new site at the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa's Gauteng province to investigate a find of "significant" fossils suspected to be those of our… Read more »
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South Africa: Researcher Finds 350 Million-Year-Old Scorpion
Wits University, 2 September 2013
A postdoctoral fellow from Wits University has discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. Read more »
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South Africa: Scientists to Unearth Fossils Live Online
SA Info, 16 July 2012
South African scientists will share the country's latest fossil discovery with the world when the uncovering of these remains is transmitted live on the internet from a laboratory… Read more »
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South Africa: Skeletons Present an Exquisite Paleo-Puzzle
Science, 9 September 2011
Starting on page 1402 of this week's issue of Science, researchers present two remarkably complete and well-preserved partial skeletons of a 2-million-year-old species called… Read more »
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South Africa: Paleoanthropologist Now Rides High On a New Fossil Tide
Science, 9 September 2011
This week, Science publishes five papers by Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand and his colleagues, featuring details and analysis of the 2-million-year-old remains… Read more »
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South Africa: Our Human-Ancestors Learning in 2011
Biz-Community, 22 December 2011
Fossils of the extinct hominid Australopithecus sediba were accidentally discovered by the 9-year-old son of a scientist in the remains of a cave in South Africa in 2008. The… Read more »
Campaign to Show Africa's Fossil Heritage to World
A Johannesburg-based project has embarked on a pan-African campaign, working in South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya to show how the continent's fossil records help to explain human origins. "Here, we have a rich understanding of our origins. Africa is the custodian of this world heritage and people must know this," says Professor Robert Blumenschine of the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (Past),InFocus
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Emeritus Professor Phillip Valentine Tobias, a scholar in the fields of anatomy, palaeoanthropology and zoology, internationally renowned for his expertise on the origins of ... Read more »
From left, the skulls of the "Taung child," "Mrs Ples", both found in South Africa, and that of a modern human.
