Located 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, the Rising Star cave system is a sprawling network of underground tunnels, chambers, and rivers. Here, explorers have uncovered over a thousand fossil elements determined to belong to a previously unknown species of hominin, Homo naledi.

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