This extinct hominin species, which is part of the Homo family tree, is distinct from modern humans, with its remains found around 12 meters beyond the Dinaledi Chamber in the Rising Star cave system.

It was in 2013, in South Africa's Rising Star cave system, that archaeologists first discovered the remains of H. naledi.

But the burial in South Africa found underground in the 'Rising Star' cave system within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO world heritage site near Johannesburg, dates back more than 200,000 years ...

Marina stood at the mouth of the Rising Star cave and looked inside. Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and ...

Ice crystals populate Full Moon Hall. The chamber, 820 feet long, is the largest yet discovered in Dark Star. The entire cave system is a geological time capsule: Mineral deposits reveal millennia ...