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Professor Lee Berger, of the University of the Witwatersrand, right, and his son, Matthew, left, at the reveal of one of two nearly 2 million-year-old skeletons unearthed in South Africa, at Maropeng, near Johannesburg, Thursday, April 8, 2010
Friday, Apr. 09, 2010

Open quoteDad, I found a fossil! Close quote

  • MATTHEW BERGER,
  • the 9-year-old son of an American paleoanthropologist, upon discovering in the grasslands of South Africa the bones of a new hominid species that lived almost 2 million years ago
Photo: AP Photo/Denis Farrell | Source: NYT