Sunday, April 18, 2010

Australopithecus Sediba

Here's a really cool article from the New York Times about a 9 year old boy who went with his paleoanthropologist father to South Africa and literally stumbled upon a new hominid species when chasing his dog. I can't even imagine how totally cool that would be.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/science/09fossil.html

3 comments:

  1. Wow. What a cool story! I bet it gets made into a kid's book.

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  2. I certainly hope so, Doug! It's far too cool not to.

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  3. That would be amazing. Will check it out ;)

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