September 20, 2006
Juvenile Australopithecus fossil find
The 3.3-million-year-old fossilised remains of a human-like child have been unearthed in Ethiopia's Dikika region.From the BBC.The female Australopithecus afarensis bones are from the same species as an adult skeleton found in 1974 which was nicknamed "Lucy". . .
The skeleton was first identified in 2000, locked inside a block of sandstone. It has taken five years of painstaking work to free the bones.
Posted by David on September 20, 2006 8:55 PM
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This one should be called Charlie Brown.
Posted by: Lord Sutch on September 21, 2006 1:28 PM
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