The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

There is a bit of a debate among those of us who write about climate change. Some argue that our key responsibility is to ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

An all-formats team reported from the scene of a South Africa mine disaster where hundreds of men working illegally underground had become trapped and ...

In 1983, archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study.

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

A recent USF study caused a stir when it reported that manatees were a nonnative species that arrived relatively recently to ...

To date, South Africa and Senegal are the only African countries to have entered JETP agreements.Why: JETP programmes have been introduced to provide financial support to developing nations as they ...