"Lucy" Lived Among Close Cousins
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 12:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of Cleveland scientists has found a 3.4 million-year-old partial foot fossil in the Afar region of Ethiopia, showing that "Lucy," Australopithecus afarensis, and a much different-looking early hominin lived in the area at the same time. The discovery is in the March 29 issue of Nature.