The knee bone's connected to the... THE Rising Star cave system in South Africa has yielded what is likely to be confirmed as the largest single find of hominin bones ever. A troupe of scientists slim enough to crawl into the system's Dinaledi Chamber unearthed more than 1,500 bones in 2013 and 2014. This week, they were revealed as belonging to an entirely new species: Homo naledi. The find is an incredible boon for palaeoanthropologists, who often must identify species from a few scattered bon...
The knee bone's connected to the... THE Rising Star cave system in South Africa has yielded what is likely to be confirmed as the largest single find of hominin bones ever. A troupe of scientists slim enough to crawl into the system's Dinaledi Chamber unearthed more than 1,500 bones in 2013 and 2014. This week, they were revealed as belonging to an entirely new species: Homo naledi. The find is an incredible boon for palaeoanthropologists, who often must identify species from a few scattered bon...
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