South African music sensations Naledi Aphiwe and Mawelele are basking in the glow of their latest release, “Romeo & Juliet”. The track, celebrated for its vibrant Afro-pop sound, has achieved a ...

Mark Thiessan/National Geographic Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about an early hominin. Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the ...

Johannesburg. — South African music sensations Naledi Aphiwe and Mawelele are basking in the glow of their latest release, 'Romeo & Juliet'. The track, celebrated for its vibrant Afro-pop sound, has ...

An extinct human species that lived around 300,000 years ago may have been more similar to us than scientists first thought. New research has found that this species, Homo naledi, buried their dead ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that members of a mysterious archaic human species buried their dead and carved symbols on cave walls long before the earliest evidence of burials by modern humans.

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Give Homo naledi credit for originality. The fossils of this humanlike species previously revealed an unexpectedly peculiar body plan. Now its pockmarked teeth speak to an unusually hard-edged diet.

Homo naledi, currently the best-known and most mysterious fossil species in the human genus, may be considerably younger than previously thought, a new investigation suggests. Further statistical ...