SA scientists to unearth fossils live online 16 July 2012 South
African scientists will share the country's latest fossil
discovery with the world when the uncovering of these remains is
transmitted live on the internet from a laboratory studio in
Maropeng in the Cradle of Humankind. Professor Lee Berger from
the Wits Institute for Human Evolution at the University of the
Witwatersrand in Johannesburg announced the plan to uncover the
fossils live in Shanghai, China last week. Berger was visiting
China as part of a South African delegation promoting trade,
business and tourism relations between the two competitive city
regions, Gauteng and Shanghai. 'The most complete early human
ancestor skeleton' The skeleton housed in the rock is believed
to be the remains of early human ancestor Australopithecus
sediba, known as 'Karabo', which was discovered by Berger at the
Malapa Site in the Cradle of Humankind in 2009. The rock
containing the fossils was discovered almost three years ago,
but lay in the Wits laborator