Professor Lee Berger, a palaeoanthropologist from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, recently discovered a new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba, almost two million years old, with the help of Google Earth. According to the Official Google Blog, Berger used Google Earth to map known caves and fossil sites and then used the tool to find almost 500 previously unidentified caves and fossil sites. One of these newly identified fossil sites led to the discovery of Australopithecus sediba.
Read the announcement from the University of Witwatersrand
Read the Google Blog Post
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2.05.2010
World War II Imagery in Google Earth
Yesterday Google added aerial images of European cities during WWII to Google Earth. Here's a clip from Google's LatLong blog:
"Many of us have heard stories, read books and watched films which show the many impacts of WWII across the world. Today we're giving you another way to understand this period in time - by exploring a new set of historical aerial images, taken over European cities during World War II, via the historical imagery feature in Google Earth. They can now be compared directly to images from the present day."
Read the full announcement
"Many of us have heard stories, read books and watched films which show the many impacts of WWII across the world. Today we're giving you another way to understand this period in time - by exploring a new set of historical aerial images, taken over European cities during World War II, via the historical imagery feature in Google Earth. They can now be compared directly to images from the present day."
Read the full announcement
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