Anthropologist Lee Berger and his team at the University of the Witwatersrand, working within the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, have published their most extensive evidence yet of ...

BELOIT — The discovery by a young man of a portion of a jaw in a cave in South Africa sent John Hawks on a journey toward the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. Twelve years after that ...

MAGALIESBURG, South Africa — Scientists say they’ve discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark chamber of a cave in South ...