the two-million year old boy
scientists say the skeletons of a woman and boy could be one of the most important finds of recent
times. a discovery by a 9-year-old led to finding the pair, dubbed australopithecus sediba. the middle-
aged woman and the young boy, perhaps her son or simply another member of her tribe, were out
hunting on the african plains or maybe looking for water in the midst of a drought when they fell into a
sinkhole, dying almost instantly. shortly thereafter, a monsoon or a flood washed them into a deeper
basin, where they were covered with mud and rapidly fossilized.
scientists say the skeletons of a woman and boy could be one of the most important finds of recent
times. a discovery by a 9-year-old led to finding the pair, dubbed australopithecus sediba. the middle-
aged woman and the young boy, perhaps her son or simply another member of her tribe, were out
hunting on the african plains or maybe looking for water in the midst of a drought when they fell into a
sinkhole, dying almost instantly. shortly thereafter, a monsoon or a flood washed them into a deeper
basin, where they were covered with mud and rapidly fossilized.
