Hr1: News Roundup, Bird Tracking, Homo Naledi, Undiscovered

Science Friday

The team of paleoanthropologists that discovered fossils of Homo naledi in a South African cave two years ago say the bones are between 335,000 and 236,000 years old. Plus, Science Friday has a new show! Undiscovered tells the back stories of great scientific discoveries.

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