Darryl Granger of Purdue University developed the technology that updated the age of an Australopithecus found in Sterkfontein Cave. New data pushes its age back more than a million years, to 3.67 ...

Fossils of early human ancestors found in a South African cave system may be 1 million years older than first thought, according to a study published Monday. The findings published in the Proceedings ...

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An international team of paleontologists unearthed fossilized bones of a new species of lovebird from three caves in the South African UNESCO World Heritage site known as the Cradle of Humankind. Life ...

Wits Sterkfontein caves tour guide, Keneth Mawete enters the caves located within the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site in Krugersdorp near Johannesburg on April 15, 2025. [AFP] ...

Fossils from a South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relatives. Archaeologists in a structure above the entrance to Sterkfontein in 2005.

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Rock deposits in a cave system inhabited by early human ancestors in South Africa may be almost 2 million years younger than previously thought, a new study has found, which may cast doubt over ...

The earth doesn’t give up its secrets easily – not even in the “Cradle of Humankind” in South Africa, where a wealth of fossils relating to human evolution have been found. For decades, scientists ...