The myth of pregnancy tourism in the 'Aryan Valley' of Ladakh, northern India, have endured for decades. Numan Bhat examines ...

Around 62,000 penguins died on two islands off the coast of South Africa over the course of eight years. A new study has ...

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Explore how groundbreaking DNA research reveals southern Africa as the cradle of early Homo sapiens, shedding light on the unique genetic legacy of ancient hunter-gatherers and their lasting impact on ...

His image is the watermark in South African passports, but he is not as widely known as leaders like Nelson Mandela and ...

The lanky young man in skinny joggers grew up in the town of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but after completing school in ...

Discover South Africa’s hidden sculpture hikes where contemporary installations, land art and ancient rock art are found.

In one of the largest African hunter-gatherer ancient-DNA studies to date, population geneticists from Uppsala University in Sweden, and a cognitive ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...