The fossilised bones of 15 bodies from a previously unknown human species have been discovered in a cave in South Africa, it was announced Thursday, in what scientists hailed as a breakthrough in ...

Located in the vicinity of Johannesburg and Pretoria, the Cradle of Humankind is a treasure trove ... warranted a new species distinction: Homo naledi. Berger’s discovery has turned a spotlight ...

The geo picks were out almost as soon as the Homo naledi fossils were unearthed in the Cradle of Humankind’s Rising Star cave system in 2013. Remarkably young for a creature with a brain half ...

It is now 10 years since the excavation of H naledi’s skeletal remains in the Cradle of Humankind near Krugersdorp. About 1 500 fossilised bones, estimated at about a quarter of a million ...

Journalists crowd around Homo naledi remains on display at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site near Johannesburg, South Africa, when the age of the fossils was announced in 2017.

The Virgin Galactic 03 space trip included some fossilized remains of ancient human relatives Australopithecus sebida and Homo naledi ... discovered in the Cradle of Humankind, as a tribute ...

Led by renowned palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers said they discovered several specimens of Homo naledi-- a tree ... a cave system within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO world ...

researchers said they discovered several specimens of Homo naledi — a tree-climbing, Stone Age hominid — buried about 30 metres underground in a cave system within the Cradle of Humankind ...

Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the Rising Star cave system in Africa's Cradle of Humankind in 2013, had human-like hands and feet but a brain a third of the size of humans -- a ...

Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the Rising Star cave system in Africa's Cradle of Humankind in 2013, had human-like hands and feet but a brain a third of the size of humans -- a ...

Bodies of Homo naledi adults and several children estimated to be younger than 13 years were deposited in foetal positions, which suggests intentional burial of the dead. These were found in two ...