Watch as Experts Reveal the Bones in the Stones - LIVE
Scientists and preparators are busily working to clean the fossils unearthed at the sites of Malapa and Rising Star in the Virtual Lab at Maropeng, the Official Visitor Centre for the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (Gauteng, South Africa). Visitors to the exhibit can watch it happen before their eyes and post their photos to social media.
For anyone who can't be there in person, the video below shows a live feed of the work, as it happens, offering views of the entire lab and the details of the fossils, as seen through a custom-made Olympus 3-D microscope.
For anyone who can't be there in person, the video below shows a live feed of the work, as it happens, offering views of the entire lab and the details of the fossils, as seen through a custom-made Olympus 3-D microscope.
Fossil Preparator
Irene Maphosa * WITS University
What's Happening NowDuring March and April of 2016, the preparation team, made up of Justin Mukanku and other veterans from Malapa, will be chipping away at the concrete-like rock surrounding what CT scans have shown to be the bones of the left side of a young teenage Australopithecus sediba. The fossils are officially called MH1 ("Malapa Hominin #1"), but were affectionately nicknamed "Karabo," a Setswana word meaning "answer," as the result of a call for suggestions from schoolchildren throughout South Africa.
While you watch the fossils being revealed, join the conversation with the scientists and others working on and interested in the project from all around the world in the comments below.
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