A new species of human ancestor has been discovered in the Red Star Cave in South Africa, providing an extraordinary insight to how humans have evolved over time and filling a gap in the evolution of our species A significant discovery of human-like remains has been discovered, 30m beneath the surface in South Africa. Analysing the bones in the Red Star cave, 10 miles north of Johannesburg required six scientists to travel deep underground in order to excavate them, allowing a further team of sixty were eagerly anticipating the finds. 1550 specimens were found in just a single square yard, including a section of skull, indicating that the head was less than half of that as the average human being and would’ve housed a significantly smaller
