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

www.mirror.co.uk ^ | Updated 17:33, 16 Mar 2016 | By Siobhan McFadyen

[Red Badger]

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists have discovered the skull of a weird, unique extinct human and who was found in an underground cave

Homo naledi fragments of skull and jaw

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Scientists 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.

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!........................ Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa

[AndyTheBear]

Is it the first of April already?

[Red Badger]

The skeleton of Homo Naledi, a newly discovered human ancestor displayed during the unveiling of the discovery in Maropeng

[Pearls Before Swine]

Hobbitses.

[pepsi_junkie]

How can you tell he’s a homo? Does the wrist show signs of limpness or something?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

So in the gene pool they ended up in the shallow end. I guess they came up short.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Homo Rubions??

[Eagles6]

Underground cave? What other kind are there?

[Red Badger]

Above ground caves are relatively rare..................

[Eagles6]

I would think so.

[moovova]

Small brain...umm...the first liberal? (Lucy the Liberal?)

[alloysteel]

I had thought they had already discovered the Hobbits. These are new people?

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

They really need to start doing some genetic studies before declaring every find they have as “new species.” If they found Africa’s modern-day pygmies in a ditch somewhere, they’d declare them a new species too.

[gundog]

As new as you can be at 2.8 million years.

[Hugin]

“Of course you have dwarves. You just don’t see them.”

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe the entire genus needs to be renamed: Hetero.

Of course the Latin word homo meaning "man" or "human being" is unrelated to the Greek root homo- meaning "same."

[Oberon]

If they found Africa’s modern-day pygmies in a ditch somewhere, they’d declare them a new species too.

Walk around Johannesburg a little these days, you'll probably find a pygmy in a ditch.

[Flycatcher]

Mysterious new dwarf human species probed...

Why would they probe the poor little guy?

Wouldn't that just make him angry?