And Homo sapiens tracks had been identified elsewhere in South Africa, on the Cape east coast ... and the ichnology (trace fossil) record therefore provides what is probably the only viable ...

I am standing on a dune looking out to sea. It's 2024, but I'm thinking about a very different time. Hundreds of thousands of ...

But those bones can deepen or even rewrite our understanding of ancient history - and South Africa is a fossil treasure trove. Some of the country's "treasures" have changed our own species ...

Darwin himself was shaken by their absence. His conclusion was that the fossil record was lacked these transitional stages, because it was so incomplete. That is certainly true in many cases ...

One site even contains the oldest known fossil footprint attributed to our own species. Read more: World's oldest _Homo sapiens_ footprint identified on South ... capacity to record this priceless ...