Tooth of a Hominid Embedded in Rock (IMAGE)

University of the Witwatersrand

Tooth of a Hominid Embedded in Rock

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This is the tooth of a hominid embedded in a rock containing significant parts of a skeleton of an early human ancestor. The skeleton is believed to be the remains of "Karabo", the type skeleton of Australopithecus sediba, discovered at the Malapa Site in the Cradle of Humankind in 2009.

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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

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