In 2015 a new member was introduced to the family tree of humans. Fossil hominins from the Rising Star cave system outside Johannesburg, South Africa, were found to belong to a previously ...

Reconstructed child skull of H. naledi. Dark portions are inferred portions of the skull. Image: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It’s tiny, incomplete, and undeniably awesome ...

A human ancestor called Homo naledi lived in southern Africa between about 241,000 and 335,000 years ago. Anthropologists found the first skull belonging to a Homo naledi child deep in a cave.

Discovery of two-million-year-old skull in South Africa throws new light on human evolution. The fossil was a male Paranthropus robustus, a species that existed alongside our early human ancestors ...

The Hofmeyr Skull. Scientists have now dated the skull as being 36,000 years old. The great similarity of this skull to skulls of the same age from Eurasian finds confirms the "Out of ...

PROF. DUBOIS' comment on the skull recently discovered at Ngandong, Java, and its relationship to Rhodesian man, which appeared in NATURE for July 2, p. 20, enhances the interest with which ...

South African fossil skull reconstructed in 3D. Advertisement. The remarkable remains of two ancient human-like creatures (hominids) have been found in South Africa. The fossils of a female adult and ...