Lee Berger's daughter Megan acts as a safety caver on the expedition. Photo by Robert Clark/National Geographic
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Marina Elliott in a cave in South Africa. Photo courtesy Marina Elliott
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A composite skeleton of H. naledi is surrounded by some of the hundreds of other fossil elements recovered. Photo by Robert Clark/National Geographic; source: Lee Berger, Wits, photographed at Evolutionary Studies Institute
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"Underground astronauts" Marina Elliott, Becca Peixotto, and Hannah Morris work inside the cave where fossils of H. naledi were discovered. Photo by Garrreth Bird
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Paleoartist John Gurche used fossils from a South African cave to reconstruct the face of Homo naledi. Photo by Mark Thiessen/National Geographic