My article was about a fossil being found in Malapa, South Africa. Scientists believe that this fossil discovery may fill in the gap of human evolution. The fossils seem to come from an adult female and a younger male, possibly a mother and son. They were also said to have been found in a cave from almost two million years ago. The paleoanthropologist that discovered this fossil was named Lee Berger and the name of the type of fossil found is australopithecus sediba. These species lived in Africa in the time that the climate and environment was changing greatly, which is also a larger part of unsolved human evolution. These fossils are thought to possibly be an ancestor of homo erectus. The reason that these fossils are so important is because they are said to be from a less familiar time of human evolution, and they could lead scientists to many more findings about where we have evolved from.
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my article was also about the findings of australopithecus sediba fossils. It is so cool that these fossils were found in a cave from almost two million years ago! I think is it so interesting that scientists keep finding more fossils which will lead them to more answers about evolution.
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