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National Geographic reports the discovery of new fossils found in Africa, the same area where back in 1970s the famous skeleton of Lucy, the early human ancestor was found.
The earliest findings suggest that Lucy, a 3.
5-foot-tall belongs to human species that lived between 3 million and 3.
6 million years ago, known as Australopithecus afarensis.
The new relics, according to National Geographic date back to about 4.
1 million years ago and are known as Australopithecus anamensis.
Tim White, a biologist at the University of California, Berkley was a co-director of the team responsible for the discovery of the latest fossils in Ethiopia.
The new finding, reported by National Geographic elegantly fills the blank spaces between the earliest 3.
6 million old species and their older counterpart Ardipithecus ramidus, dated at 4.
4 million years.
On the conference at the headquarters of National Geographic, it was reported by a team of scientists that a new species of dinosaur, with huge curved claws and a skull like a crocodile that has been dug up from an African desert.
At the headquarters of National Geographic, researchers said they believe the new fossil denotes a brand new species previously unknown, big and mean enough to have dominated the world 100 million years ago.
The findings reported at National Geographic headquarters suggest that the new species ran on two legs and was about 36 feet long with a sail-like fin on its back.
They were given the name Suchomimus tenerensis.
The grandiosely large animal’s knee was probably the size of a human being.
Scientists estimate that the formidable animal lived on fish as well as land animals.
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