Scientists claim she is 4,400,000 years old, even older than Lucy, who had been recognized as our precursor. They've given the lady on the right a name, Ardi - short for Ardipithecus ramidus. She was unearthed in the 1990s and a team of scientists from all over the world have been working to reconstruct her since then. They've concluded that she was about 4 feet tall and weighed around 110 pounds. How the scientists were able to reconstruct Ardi is absolutely amazing as she was found in pieces and her bones were extremely fragile.Some scientists think that this discovery "supports the long-held idea that we did not evolve from things that look like modern apes.’’
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I recognized her at once.
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