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#Lucy is one of the most famous fossils in #paleoanthropology. Discovered in 1974 in #Ethiopia, she is a partial skeleton of an early #hominin species, #Australopithecus afarensis, dating back around 3.2 million years. Her anatomy reveals a mix of ape-and human-like traits, providing crucial insights into the evolutionary path that led to modern #humans. I was lucky enough to see her replica at the #SenckenbergMuseum in #Frankfurt:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-05-17_lucy
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#Lucy is one of the most famous fossils in #paleoanthropology. Discovered in 1974 in #Ethiopia, she is a partial skeleton of an early #hominin species, #Australopithecus afarensis, dating back around 3.2 million years. Her anatomy reveals a mix of ape-and human-like traits, providing crucial insights into the evolutionary path that led to modern #humans. I was lucky enough to see her replica at the #SenckenbergMuseum in #Frankfurt:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-05-17_lucy
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#Lucy is one of the most famous fossils in #paleoanthropology. Discovered in 1974 in #Ethiopia, she is a partial skeleton of an early #hominin species, #Australopithecus afarensis, dating back around 3.2 million years. Her anatomy reveals a mix of ape-and human-like traits, providing crucial insights into the evolutionary path that led to modern #humans. I was lucky enough to see her replica at the #SenckenbergMuseum in #Frankfurt:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-05-17_lucy
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#Lucy is one of the most famous fossils in #paleoanthropology. Discovered in 1974 in #Ethiopia, she is a partial skeleton of an early #hominin species, #Australopithecus afarensis, dating back around 3.2 million years. Her anatomy reveals a mix of ape-and human-like traits, providing crucial insights into the evolutionary path that led to modern #humans. I was lucky enough to see her replica at the #SenckenbergMuseum in #Frankfurt:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-05-17_lucy
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#Lucy is one of the most famous fossils in #paleoanthropology. Discovered in 1974 in #Ethiopia, she is a partial skeleton of an early #hominin species, #Australopithecus afarensis, dating back around 3.2 million years. Her anatomy reveals a mix of ape-and human-like traits, providing crucial insights into the evolutionary path that led to modern #humans. I was lucky enough to see her replica at the #SenckenbergMuseum in #Frankfurt:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-05-17_lucy
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https://www.europesays.com/afrika/16697/ Äthiopien: Fossilien einer neuen Vormenschenspezies gefunden #Afrika #Äthiopien #Australopithecus #Erde/Umwelt #Ethiopia #Evolution #Homo #Lucy #Menschwerdung #Vormensch
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https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/86247/ quand sont apparus les premiers outils ? #Archéologie #Australopithecus #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #homme #HomoHabilis #Lomekwi #Oldowayen #OutilsEnPierreTaillée #Préhistoire #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #Sciences #SciencesEtTechnologies #Technologies #Technology
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https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/86171/ quand sont apparus les premiers outils ? #Archéologie #Australopithecus #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #homme #HomoHabilis #Lomekwi #Oldowayen #OutilsEnPierreTaillée #Préhistoire #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #Sciences #SciencesEtTechnologies #Technologies #Technology
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#Australopithecus (/ˌɒstrələˈpɪθɪkəs, -loʊ-/, OS-trə-lə-PITH-i-kəs, -loh-;[1] or /ɒsˌtrələpɪˈθiːkəs/, os-TRA-lə-pi-THEE-kəs,[2] from Latin australis southern 'grc' and πίθηκος (píthēkos) ape[3]) is a genus of early hominins that existed in Africa during
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/389927/ Scientists Just Reconstructed the 3.6-Million-Year-Old Skull of ‘Little Foot’, One of Our Oldest Relatives #Australopithecus #Éire #Hominin #HumanEvolution #IE #Ireland #LittleFoot #paleoanthropology #Science
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@tksst It's about a very interesting scientific #study about the #reconstruction of the #face of an #Australopithecus #fossil from South Africa, in scientific literature sometimes referred as A. #prometheus, the trivial name is "#littlefoot" (#StW573). The damaged, but preserved #skull was studied via #synchrotronXray imaging in order to carefully reconstruct bone fractions digitally. Study by A. BEAUDET et al. (2026).
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@tksst It's about a very interesting scientific #study about the #reconstruction of the #face of an #Australopithecus #fossil from South Africa, in scientific literature sometimes referred as A. #prometheus, the trivial name is "#littlefoot" (#StW573). The damaged, but preserved #skull was studied via #synchrotronXray imaging in order to carefully reconstruct bone fractions digitally. Study by A. BEAUDET et al. (2026).
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@tksst It's about a very interesting scientific #study about the #reconstruction of the #face of an #Australopithecus #fossil from South Africa, in scientific literature sometimes referred as A. #prometheus, the trivial name is "#littlefoot" (#StW573). The damaged, but preserved #skull was studied via #synchrotronXray imaging in order to carefully reconstruct bone fractions digitally. Study by A. BEAUDET et al. (2026).
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@tksst It's about a very interesting scientific #study about the #reconstruction of the #face of an #Australopithecus #fossil from South Africa, in scientific literature sometimes referred as A. #prometheus, the trivial name is "#littlefoot" (#StW573). The damaged, but preserved #skull was studied via #synchrotronXray imaging in order to carefully reconstruct bone fractions digitally. Study by A. BEAUDET et al. (2026).
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@tksst It's about a very interesting scientific #study about the #reconstruction of the #face of an #Australopithecus #fossil from South Africa, in scientific literature sometimes referred as A. #prometheus, the trivial name is "#littlefoot" (#StW573). The damaged, but preserved #skull was studied via #synchrotronXray imaging in order to carefully reconstruct bone fractions digitally. Study by A. BEAUDET et al. (2026).
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/382545/ New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis #AfarRegion #Africa #Australopithecus #AustralopithecusAfarensis #Crocodile #Crocodylus #CrocodylusLucivenator #Éire #Ethiopia #fossil #HadarFormation #Hominid #Hominin #Human #IE #Ireland #Lucy #Pliocene #Reptile #Science
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/131092/ New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis #AfarRegion #Africa #Australopithecus #AustralopithecusAfarensis #crocodile #Crocodylus #CrocodylusLucivenator #Ethiopia #Fossil #HadarFormation #Hominid #Hominin #human #Lucy #Pliocene #Reptile
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🦴💻 For years, the skull of the famous "Little Foot" #skeleton remained distorted and crushed by time. Now, using advanced X-ray imaging, researchers digitally reassembled the fragments to show what this #Australopithecus individual looked like.
Lead researcher Dr. Amélie Beaudet says the results are challenging what we know about how our ancestors moved across the African landscape.
#humans #evolution #archaeology #paleontology #science #news #history #STEM #smithsonian #AncientHistory
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🦴💻 For years, the skull of the famous "Little Foot" #skeleton remained distorted and crushed by time. Now, using advanced X-ray imaging, researchers digitally reassembled the fragments to show what this #Australopithecus individual looked like.
Lead researcher Dr. Amélie Beaudet says the results are challenging what we know about how our ancestors moved across the African landscape.
#humans #evolution #archaeology #paleontology #science #news #history #STEM #smithsonian #AncientHistory
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🦴💻 For years, the skull of the famous "Little Foot" #skeleton remained distorted and crushed by time. Now, using advanced X-ray imaging, researchers digitally reassembled the fragments to show what this #Australopithecus individual looked like.
Lead researcher Dr. Amélie Beaudet says the results are challenging what we know about how our ancestors moved across the African landscape.
#humans #evolution #archaeology #paleontology #science #news #history #STEM #smithsonian #AncientHistory
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🦴💻 For years, the skull of the famous "Little Foot" #skeleton remained distorted and crushed by time. Now, using advanced X-ray imaging, researchers digitally reassembled the fragments to show what this #Australopithecus individual looked like.
Lead researcher Dr. Amélie Beaudet says the results are challenging what we know about how our ancestors moved across the African landscape.
#humans #evolution #archaeology #paleontology #science #news #history #STEM #smithsonian #AncientHistory
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🦴💻 For years, the skull of the famous "Little Foot" #skeleton remained distorted and crushed by time. Now, using advanced X-ray imaging, researchers digitally reassembled the fragments to show what this #Australopithecus individual looked like.
Lead researcher Dr. Amélie Beaudet says the results are challenging what we know about how our ancestors moved across the African landscape.
#humans #evolution #archaeology #paleontology #science #news #history #STEM #smithsonian #AncientHistory
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Australopithecus „Little Foot“ bekommt ein Gesicht. Ältestes Vormenschenfossil Südafrikas ist seinen ostafrikanischen Vettern überraschend ähnlich. #Australopithecus #Vormensch #LittleFoot
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Australopithecus „Little Foot“ bekommt ein Gesicht. Ältestes Vormenschenfossil Südafrikas ist seinen ostafrikanischen Vettern überraschend ähnlich. #Australopithecus #Vormensch #LittleFoot
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Australopithecus „Little Foot“ bekommt ein Gesicht. Ältestes Vormenschenfossil Südafrikas ist seinen ostafrikanischen Vettern überraschend ähnlich. #Australopithecus #Vormensch #LittleFoot
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Australopithecus „Little Foot“ bekommt ein Gesicht. Ältestes Vormenschenfossil Südafrikas ist seinen ostafrikanischen Vettern überraschend ähnlich. #Australopithecus #Vormensch #LittleFoot
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Australopithecus „Little Foot“ bekommt ein Gesicht. Ältestes Vormenschenfossil Südafrikas ist seinen ostafrikanischen Vettern überraschend ähnlich. #Australopithecus #Vormensch #LittleFoot
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https://www.europesays.com/at/33660/ Australopithecus „Little Foot“ bekommt ein Gesicht – Ältestes Vormenschenfossil Südafrikas ist seinen ostafrikanischen Vettern überraschend ähnlich #Anatomie #AT #Australopithecus #Austria #Gesichtsrekonstruktion #LittleFoot #Menschheitsgeschichte #Ostafrika #Österreich #Schädel #Science #Science&Technology #Sterkfontain #Südafrika #Technik #Technology #Vormenschen #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaft&Technik
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/366444/ Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Face of ‘Little Foot’ #Africa #Australopithecus #AustralopithecusAfricanus #AustralopithecusPrometheus #Éire #face #fossil #Hominin #IE #Ireland #LittleFoot #Science #Skull #SouthAfrica #StW573
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Scientists just digitally reconstructed the face of Little Foot, a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus from South Africa. The result looks more like East African fossils than local ones. Migration? Ancestral pattern? Still open. #Paleoanthropology #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foots-face-reconstructed-at
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Scientists just digitally reconstructed the face of Little Foot, a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus from South Africa. The result looks more like East African fossils than local ones. Migration? Ancestral pattern? Still open. #Paleoanthropology #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foots-face-reconstructed-at
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Scientists just digitally reconstructed the face of Little Foot, a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus from South Africa. The result looks more like East African fossils than local ones. Migration? Ancestral pattern? Still open. #Paleoanthropology #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foots-face-reconstructed-at
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Scientists just digitally reconstructed the face of Little Foot, a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus from South Africa. The result looks more like East African fossils than local ones. Migration? Ancestral pattern? Still open. #Paleoanthropology #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foots-face-reconstructed-at
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Scientists just digitally reconstructed the face of Little Foot, a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus from South Africa. The result looks more like East African fossils than local ones. Migration? Ancestral pattern? Still open. #Paleoanthropology #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foots-face-reconstructed-at
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https://www.europesays.com/es/319736/ Un fémur de siete millones de años reaviva una larga y feroz guerra científica sobre el origen del bipedalismo | Ciencia #Antropología #Australopithecus #Chimpancés #Ciencia #CienciaYTecnología #CienciaYtecnología #ES #España #EvoluciónHumana #HomoSapiens #InvestigaciónCientífica #Paleontología #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceAndTechnology #Spain #Technology #Tecnología
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New fossil evidence suggests that “Lucy” may not have been our direct human ancestor after all
For decades, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil called “Lucy” has been a centerpiece in stories about human origins. A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy was long presented as the most plausible direct ancestor of later humans...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/lucy-may-not-have-been-our-direct-human-ancestor/
Follow us @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution #anthropology
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New fossil evidence suggests that “Lucy” may not have been our direct human ancestor after all
For decades, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil called “Lucy” has been a centerpiece in stories about human origins. A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy was long presented as the most plausible direct ancestor of later humans...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/lucy-may-not-have-been-our-direct-human-ancestor/
Follow us @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution #anthropology
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New fossil evidence suggests that “Lucy” may not have been our direct human ancestor after all
For decades, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil called “Lucy” has been a centerpiece in stories about human origins. A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy was long presented as the most plausible direct ancestor of later humans...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/lucy-may-not-have-been-our-direct-human-ancestor/
Follow us @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution #anthropology
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New fossil evidence suggests that “Lucy” may not have been our direct human ancestor after all
For decades, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil called “Lucy” has been a centerpiece in stories about human origins. A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy was long presented as the most plausible direct ancestor of later humans...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/lucy-may-not-have-been-our-direct-human-ancestor/
Follow us @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution #anthropology
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New fossil evidence suggests that “Lucy” may not have been our direct human ancestor after all
For decades, the 3.2-million-year-old fossil called “Lucy” has been a centerpiece in stories about human origins. A member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy was long presented as the most plausible direct ancestor of later humans...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/lucy-may-not-have-been-our-direct-human-ancestor/
Follow us @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Australopithecus #HumanEvolution #anthropology
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/236131/ Remarkable Fossil from South Africa May Be New Species of Australopithecus: Study #Africa #Australopithecus #AustralopithecusAfricanus #AustralopithecusPrometheus #Éire #fossil #Hominin #Human #IE #Ireland #LittleFoot #Pliocene #Science #SouthAfrica #Sterkfontein #SterkfonteinCaves #StW573
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https://www.europesays.com/ee/65807/ Mõistatuslik Aafrika luustik võis kuuluda seni teadmata inimliigile | Ajalugu #arheoloogia #australopiteekus #australopithecus #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Estonia #Estonian #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #fossiil #Headlines #hominiid #inimlane #inimlased #kivistised #LatestNews #LatestNews #Maailm #News #nüüdisinimene #PopulaarseimadLood #TopStories #TopStories #ÜldisedUudised #Uudised #ViimasedUudised #World #WorldNews #WorldNews
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Little Foot, the most complete australopith skeleton ever found, may belong to neither Australopithecus africanus nor A. prometheus. New research suggests a distinct species and a more tangled human family tree. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Fossils #Australopithecus https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foot-and-the-problem-of-naming
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Little Foot, the most complete australopith skeleton ever found, may belong to neither Australopithecus africanus nor A. prometheus. New research suggests a distinct species and a more tangled human family tree. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Fossils #Australopithecus https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foot-and-the-problem-of-naming
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Little Foot, the most complete australopith skeleton ever found, may belong to neither Australopithecus africanus nor A. prometheus. New research suggests a distinct species and a more tangled human family tree. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Fossils #Australopithecus https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foot-and-the-problem-of-naming
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Little Foot, the most complete australopith skeleton ever found, may belong to neither Australopithecus africanus nor A. prometheus. New research suggests a distinct species and a more tangled human family tree. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Fossils #Australopithecus https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foot-and-the-problem-of-naming
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Little Foot, the most complete australopith skeleton ever found, may belong to neither Australopithecus africanus nor A. prometheus. New research suggests a distinct species and a more tangled human family tree. #HumanEvolution #Paleoanthropology #Fossils #Australopithecus https://www.anthropology.net/p/little-foot-and-the-problem-of-naming
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Ancient foot fossil finally identified as an enigmatic hominin species that lived alongside Lucy in Ethiopia
Scientists have solved a mystery concerning an unusual 3.4 million-year-old foot fossil from Ethiopia: it indeed comes from Australopithecus deyiremeda, a close but distinct relative of Lucy and her species, Australopithecus afarensis...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/hominin-species-lived-alongside-lucy-in-ethiopia/
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