Researchers say that the fossilized bones of "Homo naledi," so far found exclusively underground in South Africa, lack a key ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Inside were the bones of several members of a roughly 300,000-year-old hominin species previously unknown to science.

Scientists analyzed proteins from the teeth of at least 20 Homo naledi individuals and found no male markers, suggesting a ...

The extremely difficult conditions in which University of the Witwatersrand's (Wits) Professor Lee Berger's Rising Star team was forced to work, gave rise to the use of space-age technology to map the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the skull of Leti, the first _Homo naledi_ child whose remains were found in ...

In 1964, Louis Leakey and colleagues proposed the name of Homo habilis, the "handyman," for fossil remains of a human ancestor in Tanzania, making it the earliest species in a genus that includes us, ...

VR apps, open access data, social media searches—this expedition wants to update its field. On September 10, 2015, scientists formally announced that a new species of hominin had been discovered in ...

While the Department of Education says it will continue with its troubled Dinaledi schools project, analysts believe the project has failed. Education specialists and the Democratic Alliance's shadow ...