Saturday 19 March 2016

Mysterious new dwarf human species probed after scientists find 3 million year old skull in cave

Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. Pictured - fragments of skull and jawScientists have discovered a skull belonging to a previously unknown species of human from three million years ago.
The research team made up of paleoanthropologists stumbled across the remains in an underground cave and have now put together a skeleton which stands at 4ft 9 tall and is described as "a really, really strange creature."
Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and his co-horts stumbled across 15 individuals skeletons which they believe make up a tribe of the bizarre human species - and now they've found the missing link.
And while they resemble homo sapiens - like modern day humans - the species could more more than 2.8 million years old.=read more=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mysterious-new-dwarf-human-species-7566527

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