Five quartz arrowheads found in a South African cave were laced with a slow-acting tumbleweed poison that would have tired ...

Khalda Petroleum made three new oil and gas discoveries: the WKAN-X W-2X well in the West Kanayes development, the TAYIM ...

For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For example, the curare plant poisons used by South and Central American hunters ...

Africa’s natural gas potential is undeniably significant, with the continent ranking second globally in terms of discovered but undeveloped gas resources. According to the African Energy Chamber’s ...

Much of the continent’s gold is still untapped and require investment to overcome extraction challenges. While in 2026 Africa ...

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Hominid footprints found on Crete date back 5.6 million years, making them by far the oldest ever discovered in Europe.

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

A mass grave containing the remains of 21 individuals has been uncovered, believed to be migrants, Libya’s Attorney General’s ...

Of her books, the memoir Out of Africa is the one most likely destined for immortality. Nevertheless, a 1985 film version, ...

Ethiopia’s Afar region has stood out in the study of human evolution for its vast array of hominin fossils, from some of the earliest known Homo sapiens dating to 160,000 years, to hominins dating as ...

Wits scientists have identified a "microbial watchlist" of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that could cause cancer.