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 ...

Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the Rising Star cave system in Africa's Cradle of Humankind in 2013, had human-like hands and feet but a brain a third of the size of humans -- a ...

The pair were exploring Rising Star, a popular cave in the region, when they made the fossil discovery. After squeezing through two narrow crevices, the cave divers — Steven Tucker and Rick ...