Sutherland is one of South Africa’s lesser-known gems. Located in the middle of the Great Karoo in the country’s Northern Cape province and roughly a four-hour drive inland from Cape Town, it’s famed ...

Scientists have reconstructed the paleoecology the Paleo-Agulhas Plain, a now-drowned landscape on the southern tip of Africa that was high and dry during glacial phases of the last 2 million years ...

Early humans lived in South African river valleys with deep, fertile soils filled with grasslands, floodplains, woodlands, and wetlands that abounded with hippos, zebras, antelopes, and many other ...