US
Discovery, CBS News - 60 Minutes (10m viewers)
Using satellites to find skeletons, CNN (27.7m unique monthly visitors), New Hominid Species Discovered in South Africa, New York Times (circ. 927k)
Google Earth helps unearth new human species in South Africa, Los Angeles Times (circ. 657k)
Google Earth Helps Scientists Discover New Species of Early Man, Mashable (2.4m unique monthly visitors)
Google Earth Unearths Ancient Human Ancestor, InformationWeek (circ. 440k)
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UK
Google Earth Finds Missing Link, Press Association
Could South African fossils be new hominid species? Metro (circ. 1m)
New Human like species revealed, BBC (20m unique monthly visitors)
Skeletons discovery bridges evolution gap, Financial Times (circ. 400k)
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South Africa
"Google Earth helps in groundbreaking discovery of human ancestors bones". Saturday Star print (circ. 168k), excellent half page piece with photos, as well as a paragraph in the Friday edition (circ. 168k)
Earth s role also mentioned in extensive pieces in the Mail and Guardian weekly (circ. 40k), Mail and Guardian Online (circ. 350k) and Business Day print (circ. 42k) Google Earth helps discover new species IOL (circ. 1m) Google Earth aids in SA fossil discovery BizCommunity (circ.305k )
Google Finds Missing Link ITWeb (circ. 80k)
Google Earth helps discover rare hominid ancestor My Broadband (circ. 700k) |
Spain
New hominid gives hints about human origins, El Pa?(circ. 2.8m)
Half chimpanzee, half human, El Mundo (circ. 1.3m)
The rosetta stone of human evolution P?co, (circ. 222k)
A new Australopithecus sediba , found thanks to Google Earth - RTVE
New fossils discovered thanks to Google Earth- El Pa?com
New hominid species that lived two million years ago found in South Africa ? Cadena Ser
Further Spanish coverage here
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France
When Google Earth allows scientific discoveries Les Echos, (business daily site) (circ. 6.1m)
A 1.9 million years old fossil discovered thanks to Google Earth Metrofrance.com, (website of free daily newspaper) (circ. 1m)
Discovery of a new hominid kind with the help of Google Earth and a child of 9 years old Maxisciences.com, (influential scientific blog, circ. 300k)
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Japan
New fossil discovery in South Africa shows transition between apes and hominid - Early human ancestor from 2 million years ago. Yomiuri Newspaper (national newspaper, circ: 10m)
Google Earth found the new hominid species in South Africa Mycom Journal (leading online news site)
New hominid fossil found in a cave in South Africa thanks to Google Earth s contribution - human ancestor from 1.95 years ago? Yahoo! JAPAN News
Also picked up in 5 additional online portals and by influential tech reporter, Nobi Hayashi, followed by more than 211,000 people. |
