A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

The Laetoli site in Tanzania is globally famous for its australopithecine trackways, which remain the only tracks of these ...

Scientists from Arizona State University and other institutions finally assigned a species name to a fossil known as the ...

Around 165 million years ago, a bizarre, armored dinosaur roamed the floodplains of North Africa. The unusual, 13-foot creature, named Spicomellus afer by paleontologists, was adorned with ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...