The Discovery that Reshaped Your Family Tree

Join a group of courageously curious ordinary people, willing to go deep below the Earth’s surface, to help us meet our cousins: an ancient species of humans who walked alongside us in the not so distant past!

Imagine if your commute to work required that you squeeze yourself through a nine-inch crack in the Earth’s crust and avoid injury on something called the dragon’s back, all to make your way into a hot and humid cavern. It’s certainly not the easiest commute, but for an intrepid group of scientists in South Africa, it was the journey they were willing to make twice a day. Why? Well, they were there to check out one of the most incredible paleontology finds in recent history!

By Liesl Ulrich-Verderber


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