One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Dr Claire Browning has led an international team of scientists to uncover fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped ...

An international team of scientists from UCT has discovered fossil evidence of a resilient ecosystem that played a crucial ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem in the Cederberg mountains, revealing ...

Ten years after the Paris agreement on climate change, which garnered government commitments to limit the average global temperature increase to well below two degrees Celsius, renewed assertions of ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, ...

Durban’s port is a monster. It’s the busiest port in South Africa, the 2nd busiest in Africa (after Egypt), and the 4th ...