South Africa’s limestone caves, such as Sterkfontein often hold the fossilized skeletons of hominids who fell into holes or were dragged underground by predators. Adrian Melia / www ...

Located in the vicinity of Johannesburg and Pretoria, the Cradle of Humankind is a treasure trove of early hominin fossils Some 2.5 million years ago when saber-toothed cats roamed the rolling ...

Thirty minutes from Pretoria and Johannesburg is a living, breathing natural history museum of our origin story as a planet and as a species. We meet our guide, Paul Zille, on the veranda of the ...