Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale ...

The continent has a vast history spanning thousands of years, and one place has fended off invaders for the most part.

Ancient living rocks along South Africa’s coast are thriving in harsh conditions, rapidly growing while storing surprising ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

The oldest hominin fossils outside of Africa hail from Dmanisi in Georgia, yet the debate over which human species these ...

South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained in rocky, often layered outcroppings called ...

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

If a steaming bowl of soup strikes you as the ultimate in old-fashioned comfort, you’ve got plenty of company.

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists, and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” ...