The University of the Witwatersrand is offering a prize of R75,000 to a South African child who can come up with a name for a 1.95 million-year-old fossil of a new hominid species unveiled in the Cradle of Humankind last week.

The university said on Monday that the prize was "a celebration" of the discovery of the juvenile skeleton by nine-year-old South African boy, Matthew Berger, in August 2008.

"In celebration of the discovery of a 1.9-million year old juvenile skeleton in the Cradle of Humankind, by a young South African, Matthew Berger, Wits University and its partners Standard Bank and the Palaeontolgical Scientific Trust, invite the children of South Africa to name the skeleton," the university said.
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