New species of pre-human?
This spooky image shows the controversial cranium of Australopithecus sediba, unearthed in April 2010 in a South African cave.
Fossils of the bones of the young male and adult female suggests a controversial new species, that walked upright and shared many physical traits with the earliest known human Homo species.
The finding of the pre-human, or hominid, fossils - which scientists say are between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old - is believed to possibly answer some key questions about where humans came from.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
