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 ...

Earl Cave hopes Cannes audiences walk out of The Chronology of Water. “It’s a very bold and quite outrageous film,” the young star teases. “If everyone sat there liking it, something’s ...

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 ...