The Sterkfontein Caves contain more remains from Australopithecus than anywhere else on Earth. They're part of a major fossil site in South Africa known as the "Cradle of Humankind."Mark Edward Harris ...

An international team of paleontologists unearthed fossilized bones of a new species of lovebird from three caves in the South African UNESCO World Heritage site known as the Cradle of Humankind. Life ...

Cradle of Filth performed their scheduled concert in New York City on Monday (Oct. 11) without the two advertised opening bands, 3Teeth and Once Human, apparently because members of both of those acts ...

Fossils of early human ancestors found in a South African cave system may be 1 million years older than first thought, according to a study published Monday. The findings published in the Proceedings ...

It was a sharp discovery for archaeologists in Kenya. Archeologists have uncovered three-million-year-old tools used by early humans in an area of Africa called “the cradle of humankind.” Kenya’s Homa ...

Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"? It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that ...

The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists ...

Darryl Granger of Purdue University developed the technology that updated the age of an Australopithecus found in Sterkfontein Cave. New data pushes its age back more than a million years, to 3.67 ...

Scientists say early human ancestors, whose remains are in a South African cave, lived about 3.7 million years ago. Researchers relied on "burial dating," a method that uses space particles to date ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For ...