A 9-year-old kicks off a two-million-year mystery with one lucky step.
A 9-year-old boy in South Africa discovers one of the greatest fossil finds of all time while taking a walk: a two-million-year-old clavicle bone belonging to a prehuman boy. Its an extraordinary find because it belongs to one of the most complete early hominid skeletons ever discovered.
Direction
Peter Yost builds genuine paleo-drama from dirt and patience.
Production
Reconstructions make ancient bones feel startlingly alive.
Director
Peter Yost
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual fossil was found in 2008 at the Malapa site, which has since yielded multiple partial skeletons.
Australopithecus sediba was initially controversial—some scientists argued it was just a weird Australopithecus africanus.
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