Australopithecus sediba

Australopithecus sediba is an extinct australopithecine recovered from Malapa Cave in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. It is known from a partial juvenile skeleton, the holotype MH1, and a partial adult female skeleton, MH2, dated to about 1.98 million years ago in the Early Pleistocene. The cave may have worked as a natural death trap at the foot of a vertical shaft. First proposed as a possible ancestor of Homo, it may instead be a late-surviving relative of Australopithecus africanus. Brain volume was about 350 to 440 cubic centimetres. The face of MH1 looks strikingly like Homo, the teeth are small, and body weight was about 30 to 36 kilograms.