Via Google Earth Blog:

There’s a neat story
on the Google LatLong blog today about a professor that has been
using Google Earth to find caves and fossil deposits, eventually leading
to the discovery of a hominid fossil dated between 1.78 and 1.95
million years old.

Before Professor Lee Berger began this project using Google Earth,
there were around 130 cave sites and 20 fossil deposits that they were
aware of, identified by him and his colleagues over the past few
decades. Since beginning to use Google Earth, they’ve found over 500
previously unidentified sites!