Cradle of Humankind
The remains of several partial skeletons of a previously unknown  Australopithecan species were found in 2008 near Johannesburg. They have been dated to about two million year ago (mya). A recent re-examination of two partial skeletons of Australopithecus sediba has led to its identification as close to the origin of the genus Homo. Not all palaeoanthropologists agree this is a new species.