Above, the Malapa site, September 4th, 2008, at the moment of the discovery of the fossilized female skeleton MH2. Photo courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of the Witwatersrand, under Creative Commons attribution license.
Above, the Malapa site, September 4th, 2008, at the moment of the discovery of the fossilized female skeleton MH2. Photo courtesy of Lee Berger and the University of the Witwatersrand, under Creative Commons attribution license.
Can they get intact DNA out of it?
This is really incredible.
In before Helen Thomas pics.
I hope that dog doesn’t eat the homework.
If you hold up some soft tissue and say, "This flesh is two million years old", a lot of folks will say, "Cool".
Well, some folks like a fairy tale.
the individuals found at Malapa were rapidly deposited and entombed in a thick layer of sand and clay through natural causes
"ugh, ooga wogga eee ha dubbawubba"... (Sh!+, we just stepped into quicksand...)
Preserved flesh of 2-million-year-old human ancestors found?
Populated Archaeology ^ | Wednesday, September 21, 2011 | San McSmearan
Posted on Monday, September 26, 2011 10:20:26 PM by Sunnk
His jaw must have dropped when he examined the material before him. It was a rare find. So rare, in fact, that, if what he was looking at was really what he thought it could be, it would be the first and only evidence of soft body tissue from an early hominin ever discovered.......soft tissue from an early (possible) pre-human ancestor nearly 2 million years old. Next to the female remains was discovered pieces of hard body tissue from a homo erectus.
