That is, assuming their curators will even allow such access.īut the Homo naledi specimens are a different story. Paleontologists like Boyer frequently travel halfway around the world to examine such unique and fragile specimens. Reconstruction by Peter Schmid and Ashley Kruger, University of the Witwatersrand.ĭuke assistant professor Doug Boyer’s office is more than 8,000 miles away from the vault at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the fossil remains of a newly discovered human ancestor, Homo naledi, rest under lock and key.īut with a few clicks of his computer’s mouse, he can have models of any one of hundreds of naledi bone fragments delivered to his desk in a matter of minutes. The creature is one of more than 500 extinct species whose fossil scans are available for anyone to download at. 3-D scan of the fossilized skull of Homo naledi, an ancient human whose remains were discovered in a South African cave.
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