Friday 22 March 2013

EARLIEST ANCESTORS COULD WALK & CLIMB TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Scientists exploring a hillside in Ethiopia have announced the discovery of a 3.3 million year old girl incomplete skeleton claimed to be one of the earliest direct ancestors of human beings.Features of the skeleton clearly indicates the evidence of bipedal locomotion & arboreal ability.The skeleton have been classified as Australopithcus afarensis ,a species that used to live between 3 to 3.3 million years ago.Scientists  had unearthed the first australopithecus fossil,a female named as LUCY in the same region of Ethiopia in 1974.This fossil used to live 150,000 years before LUCY.

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