Fossils belonging to Homo naledi were first discovered in the Rising Star cave system in ... excavator of Dragon’s Back Expedition (named for one of the cave’s features).

The Gist: The Rising Star Cave is located in the Cradle of Humankind ... in the wide-eyed enthusiastic demeanor among his research crew, and leads to a few hyperbolic declarations, but hey ...

An Homo naledi group carry one of their dead into Rising Star cave in this ... remains in one of the cave's chambers. Out of 60 applicants for the original 2014 expedition, six intrepid women ...

Calls for more details since have not revealed any new information from the tent town above the Rising Star cave complex in the ... assistant expedition leader, shortly after the tantalising ...

A group of scientists who recently completed an expedition through South Africa’s Rising Star cave system has made a bold announcement: Homo naledi, an early human species with a brain one-third ...

Robert Clark/National Geographic The Homo naledi remains were discovered in 2013 by two South African spelunkers exploring the Rising Star cave. Dr. Berger organized an expedition into the complex ...

Deep inside the Rising Star cave system, about 20 miles outside Johannesburg, a group of young scientists led by American paleoanthropologist Lee Berger claim to have found gravesites of small ...

Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist and author of "Cave of Bones", joined us to share the amazing discover he and his team made inside the Rising Star cave complex. In the summer of 2022, Lee lost 50 ...

The Rising Star Cave system in South Africa contains the remains of an unusually high number of individuals of the hominid species Homo naledi that lived around 300,000 years ago, and their ...