Careful!
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A nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a three-year-old girl, Australopithecus afarensis just like Lucy, has been found in Ethiopia. It was found just a few miles away from where Lucy was found in 1974. It is about 3.3 million years old, tens of thousands of years older than Lucy.
Tiny head, tiny knee caps – just a baby, still nursing when she died. Her skeleton is much more complete than other adult ones found since 1974, and scientists have placed her firmly on our ancestor’s list.
The picture – a recreation based on her skull – has another value. It’s the best way a parent can illustrate that traditional warning: “Be careful, or your face will freeze like that!”
A nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a three-year-old girl, Australopithecus afarensis just like Lucy, has been found in Ethiopia. It was found just a few miles away from where Lucy was found in 1974. It is about 3.3 million years old, tens of thousands of years older than Lucy.
Tiny head, tiny knee caps – just a baby, still nursing when she died. Her skeleton is much more complete than other adult ones found since 1974, and scientists have placed her firmly on our ancestor’s list.
The picture – a recreation based on her skull – has another value. It’s the best way a parent can illustrate that traditional warning: “Be careful, or your face will freeze like that!”
But I like it!
posted by Greg Finnegan @ 3:21 PM
2 Comments:
At 7:55 PM,
kenju said…
Aha! I had a daughter - and I have a granddaughter - who both had hair like that as infants. Now we know where the missing links are.
At 5:22 PM,
Daisy said…
She looks like George W. Bush!!!
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