Shell has been granted environmental authorisation to drill up to five deep-water wells off South Africa's west coast, the ...

One of the most complex current issues in sports can be traced back to a track meet in Germany in 2009, when an unknown ...

Two-million-year-old bones from an extinct South African creature display a mix of human and ape traits, according to a series of studies published yesterday. Where this ancient primate fits on ...

The area is known as the Cradle of Humankind and Mrs Ples is the affectionate term for the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus (our ape-man ancestor) found in South Africa.

Largely undeterred by electric fences, hundreds of wild baboons are terrorizing South Africa's prized wine country, gobbling up to ripe, succulent grapes ready for harvesting.

The new human fossils from South Africa have added fuel to a long-standing debate over the geographical origins of our species.

Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Largely Vegetarian 3.3 Million Years Ago in South Africa, Fossil Teeth Reveal Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans’ development of larger ...

An ape fossil found in Turkey may controversially suggest that the ancestors of African apes and humans first evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa, a research team says in a new study.

News Published: 07 February 1925 Australopithecus africanus The Man-Ape of South Africa RAYMOND A. DART Nature 115, 195–199 (1925) Cite this article ...

TV soap actors Helen Flanagan and Dean Gaffney are the latest contestants to leave I’m A Celebrity… South Africa. On Wednesday’s episode of the ITV reality TV show, the duo were eliminated ...