South Africa: Ancient Skeleton Named

Pretoria — An almost 2 million-year-old hominid skeleton discovered in the Cradle of Humankind has been named Karabo.

Karabo is a 1.95 million-year-old fossil, who was between nine and 13-years-old when he died, and was found by Matthew Berger, the son of Wits palaeoanthropologist Professor Lee Berger.

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