Sentences with phrase «afarensis date»
Fossils from A. afarensis date to between 3.7 and 3 million years ago, so the two species would have overlapped (though Lucy herself may have lived too recently to see one).
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BIG MARKS Footprints of the largest known Australopithecus afarensis, dating to nearly 3.7 million years ago, have been found in hardened volcanic ash at Tanzania's Laetoli site.
The only hominin fossil remains in the area dating to that time are from Australopithecus afarensis.
Since Lucy was discovered in Ethiopia's Afar region in 1974, researchers have uncovered many more fossils assigned to her species, Australopithecus afarensis, and dated to between 3.7 million and 3.0 million years ago.
Later in the decade, specimens dated to 2.3 mya were found nearby at Hadar, the site where «Lucy», Australopithecus afarensis, was found in 1974.
«Lucy,» the 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis (left) and «Neo,» a skeleton of Homo naledi (right) that was dated as being roughly 250,000 years old.