Anthropologists have found the partially intact, 3.3-million-year-old skeleton of a 3-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, the ape-man species represented by "Lucy." Features of the skeleton will add to the scientific debate about whether afarensis, which walked upright, also climbed like an ape.
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New York Times article by John Noble Wilford about the find.
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Scientific American asked C. Owen Lovejoy, an expert in hominid locomotion, to talk a little bit on the blog about the recent Australopithecus find.
They've also posted a special online feature about the fossil.
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