Discover the remarkable Homo naledi specimen Neo and what recent findings reveal about its date and burial rituals in hominins. One hint at their capabilities comes from the very fact that they were ...

An extinct human species, the Homo naledi, shared space with modern humans as well as other hominins between 226,000 and 335,000 years ago. And archaeologists now know more about the newfound species, ...

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Johannesburg - Scientists today announced that the Rising Star Cave system has revealed yet more important discoveries, only a year and a half after it was announced that the richest fossil hominin ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Probing deeper into the South African cave system known as Rising Star, a subterranian maze that last year yielded the largest cache of hominin fossils known to science, an ...

The one thing everyone agrees is that the fossils themselves are spectacular. In 2015, researchers unveiled 1,500 hominin fossil fragments found deep in a South African cave, excavated by six cavers ...

More fossils of the mysterious hominin species Homo Naledi have been identified in the Rising Star Cave system in South Africa, scientists have announced. They say that these human relatives were ...

The Rising Star Cave system has revealed yet more important discoveries about the richest fossil hominin site in Africa. The research team working in this system has announced two major discoveries ...

Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news One hint at their capabilities comes from the very fact that they were found in the cave. The Dinaledi ...

Probing deeper into the South African cave system known as Rising Star, which last year yielded the largest cache of hominin fossils known to science, an international team of researchers has ...