There has been global interest in the announcement of new fossils from a cave called Rising Star in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.
These fossils were recently reported by Lee Berger and his team who described the discovery of more than 1500 fossils representing a new species of the genus Homo. It has been called Homo naledi, associated with a name for star in the Sesotho language.
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