In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

The risk of an asteroid hitting Earth has doubled in a week – but there are no plans yet to build a spacecraft to ­deflect the football pitch-sized rock. A 90-metre-wide space rock passed Earth on ...

For 45 years, the Arkansas Times has asked its readers to set aside a moment to ponder the state’s best restaurants, catfish, ...

Cape Town’s surrounding national parks offer a mix of dramatic coastlines and incredibly rich biodiversity. Here are four you ...