Sentences with phrase «old partial skeleton»
The most famous fossil to be discovered from the Australopithecus afarensis species is a 3.2 million year - old partial skeleton named Lucy, a female hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.
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In 2008, anthropologist John Kappelman and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin scanned the partial skeleton of Lucy, the famous 3.18 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 1974.
The last big find was made by Berger in 2008: at nearby Malapa, he discovered two partial skeletons of a previously unknown species with a strange mix of apelike and human features — the 2 - million - year - old Australopithecus sediba.
Researchers unearthed a partial, nonfossilized skeleton of what appears to be a 30 - year - old woman in a limestone cave on the island of Flores, 370 miles east of Java.
Ardi's hip arrangement doesn't appear in two later fossil hominids, including the famous partial skeleton known as Lucy, a 3.2 - million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis.
The finds come from at least three individuals and include an adult male's partial skeleton comparable in completeness to Lucy's famous, 3.2 - million - year - old remains from East Africa.
University of Michigan paleontologist Philip D. Gingerich and his colleagues recovered partial skeletons of two new fossil whales, Artiocetus clavis and Rodhocetus balochistanensis, from 47 - million - year - old rocks in Pakistan's Balochistan Province.
A newly published research paper describes the discovery of the partial skeleton of a turkey - sized dinosaur lodged within 113 - million - year - old rocks.