Newly discovered 140-million-year-old tracks rewrite the history of African dinosaurs and reveal how earthquakes preserved ...

The bones he encountered belonged to a newly named species, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, which is part of the hyaenodonts’ family ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

The Takarkori individuals are most closely related to other North African peoples who diverged from Sub-Saharan populations long before. While the Sahara is now a vast expanse of sand where the ...

When we resumed at Harvard Kennedy School last year, Africa became a topic of interest among many of our fellow students. As discussions unfolded during our classes and informal gatherings ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Criminal investigators in Kenya said on Monday they have concluded a probe into the death of a young mother in 2012 who was last seen alive in the company of British ...

A Long Island man was switched at birth with a baby born minutes apart who had his same last name — and only learned the awful truth through Ancestry.com, he told The Post in heartbreaking detail.

COVINGTON, La. (WVUE) - Marianite of Holy Cross Sister Suellen Tennyson, a New Orleans native and longtime religious leader who survived a harrowing kidnapping in West Africa, died Wednesday at ...

Scientists found a “pygmy” creature with “leaf”-like toes in rocky a crevice of South Africa and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Courtney Hundermark via Conradie ...