Lucy: Our First Ancestor
I was at a museum when I first heard of Lucy. I had heard that she was an ape that walked on two feet 3 million tears ago. But after doing more research, I found out more fact about her. On November 24, 1974, Donald Johanson, the archaeologist that found Lucy, was actually looking for fossils at the site of Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson and his colleague Tom Gray were driving back from their fossil hunt when Johanson spotted a forearm bone in the ground. Consequently, Johanson got out of the rover to catch a closer peek. Two weeks later, after screening and recovering, they had saved 40% of the hominid's skeleton dated 3.2 million years ago. Later that night there was drinking, singing, and the Beatles' song, “Lucy in
I was at a museum when I first heard of Lucy. I had heard that she was an ape that walked on two feet 3 million tears ago. But after doing more research, I found out more fact about her. On November 24, 1974, Donald Johanson, the archaeologist that found Lucy, was actually looking for fossils at the site of Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson and his colleague Tom Gray were driving back from their fossil hunt when Johanson spotted a forearm bone in the ground. Consequently, Johanson got out of the rover to catch a closer peek. Two weeks later, after screening and recovering, they had saved 40% of the hominid's skeleton dated 3.2 million years ago. Later that night there was drinking, singing, and the Beatles' song, “Lucy in