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Scientists hail Lucy's daughter |
2006-09-21 |
A 3.3 million-year-old skeleton of the earliest child ever found shows the ancient ancestor of modern humans walked upright but may have also climbed trees. The remains of the three-year-old girl, found in Ethiopia's Dikika region, is of the same species as the famous hominid fossil skeleton known as "Lucy". "It represents the earliest and most complete partial skeleton of a child ever found in the history of paeleoanthropology," said Dr Zeresenay Alemseged, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Dating of the sediment in which the bones were found suggests the child lived between 3.31 and 3.35 million years ago. The discovery sheds light on a branch of the human tree known as Australopithecus afarensis. Lucy, recovered in Ethiopia in 1974, is the most famous A. afarensis fossil. For more than 20 years Lucy was the earliest known member of the hominid family. Hominids are primates who split from apes between five and seven million years ago. The skull, torso and limbs show both human and ape-like features. |
Posted by:Fred |
#11 Mother? |
Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-21 19:36 |
#10 LOL 6r! |
Posted by: RD 2006-09-21 18:16 |
#9 I await Abu Babalus remarks on the finding of Little Ricky. |
Posted by: 6 2006-09-21 17:55 |
#8 I think mistah big there looks a lot like Khalid Sheik Mohaamed when he forgot his depilatory. Similar jaw and brow line. That gal's titties looks like a couple fried eggs on a nail. |
Posted by: remoteman 2006-09-21 16:51 |
#7 Don't let Bill Clinton anywhere near that... |
Posted by: gb506 2006-09-21 16:29 |
#6 SOP - Gravity, why does it hate us? |
Posted by: Omasing Glinesing6559 2006-09-21 12:55 |
#5 I always liked climbing trees, but I fell a lot. Must have lost some skill over the generations. |
Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-09-21 12:11 |
#4 A shot like that should be on page 1 of the DS&TP. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-09-21 11:37 |
#3 Actually the goob isn't that tall. She is about 3'9" and he is about 4'6". |
Posted by: twobyfour 2006-09-21 11:17 |
#2 Shouldn't this be the "Good Morning" paper? This gal is A. afarensis' answer to Heady Lamarr. Look at those funbags, will ya! I'd say that goob with her looks like Ahmanutjob, but he's too tall. :-) |
Posted by: gorb 2006-09-21 07:01 |
#1 Wow, that gal is hot |
Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-21 01:35 |