The bones of the ancestor of man, Lucy, aged 3.18 million, who rarely leave Ethiopia, were presented to the public in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister describing the fossil report “the first time in Europe”. The ancient remains of Australopithecus afarensis were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The discovery was, at its time, the most complete that had ever become and redefined the understanding of the ancestors of mankind. In the Czech National Museum, Lucy’s bones are presented with Sellas, the fossil of an Australopithecus baby who lived about 100,000 years before Lucy and found himself in the same place 25 years later. The fossils, borrowed from the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, arrived in Prague on August 15, under strict security measures. “Both skeletal residues belong to the most valuable exhibits of the world heritage … exposed to a European country for the first time,” Czech Prime Minister Petr Fial said at the inauguration, […]
Source: News Beast
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