According to the Official Google Blog, Google Earth played a role in the discovery of a new hominid fossil in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. “The discovery is one of the most significant palaeoanthropological discoveries in recent times, revealing at least two partial hominid skeletons in remarkable condition, dating to between 1.78 and 1.95 million years,” Michael Jones, Chief Technology Advocate at Google, says in a post.

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Recently, Google launched Place Pages, where you can find a bunch of info on a local business on single page. You can find these pages when you search on Google Maps.

So, it’s not that far of a stretch that Place Pages are now being added to Google Earth. If you’re not familiar, Google Earth is a 3D version of Google Maps. You download it onto your computer to use it.

In Google Earth, Place Pages appear directly in the window, so as not to disrupt your virtual traipsing.

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