Two million years apart, two boys close the evolutionary gap
Two million years after he died in a deep death-shaft cave along with a sabre-toothed cat, a horse, wild dog, hyena and other animals, the remains of a human-like juvenile male - potentially a missing link in the evolutionary transition of apes to humans, and estimated to have been nine years old when he died - have been discovered by a boy of the same age. ABC News: Remains of new species of early human have been found in South Africa at the base of what was once a network of underground caves, described by scientists as a "death trap".