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The remarkable remains of two ancient human-like creatures (hominids) have been found in South Africa.

The fossils of a female adult and a juvenile male - perhaps mother and son - are just under two million years old.

The team behind the discovery reports in the journal Science that the new species should be assigned the name Australopithecus sediba.

Here, Professor Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand talks to the BBC's Karen Allen about the find.

Follow the link to watch the video. I couldn't post it sorry.

Sweet, I love these kinds of discoveries. Its always cool to see and hear about our past ancestors.

Cool

It's a fake! Just kidding, it's great to see another gap being filled in our human ancestry!

very neat discovery

You know... I'm not a big fan of the names being able to be picked by the discoverer. That's how we ended up with Californium. Now a fossil is likely to be named after Australia that was found in Africa.

That's just silly.

Its actually 5000 years old.

just joking.

Its an amazing find, I especially liked the notion that it had longer arms so they could climb as well as run on the ground.

40% of a skeleton and they already know that "It was good in the trees and as good as us on the ground"?

And how they know it's 1.9 million years old? They picked up the thing on the savanna, from the surface (kid said he just turned over a little rock and the skull was there).

It's just stupid that they pretend to know so much.

Are you serious or being sarcastic?

It's called carbon dating.

Don't tell me, are you actually refuting evolution?

You can tell a lot from a skeleton. Especially a skeleton on which you have so much information about its relatives.

Also for the age thing, carbon dating.