Timeworn tot.(LIFE AS WE KNOW IT)(Brief article)

Publication: Smithsonian

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The oldest known fossil of a child hominid has been found in Ethiopia. The 3-year-old female Australopithecus afarensis (the same species as the adult fossil "Lucy") lived about 3.3 million years ago. It's rare for a child's delicate bones to last long enough to be fossilized, but this skeleton,...

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