Thursday, September 21, 2006

Dikika Baby

The world's oldest known human ancestor was discovered in Ethiopia's badlands, in the Dikika area near the Great Rift Valley. The 3.3 million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a child believed to be about 3 years of age, belongs to the primitive human species Australopithecus afarensis, which is the same species as the legendary "Lucy," previously the oldest human ancestor yet found.

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