Google honors fossil Lucy – Correio da Manhã

skeleton was discovered 41 years ago.

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Are you interested in archaeological discoveries?

Google homepage honors, this terça- fair, the discovery of the fossil Lucy through a doodle. The skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis, a species of extinct hominid in 1978, was found exactly 41 years ago by anthropologist Donald Johnson and student Tom Gray. They were doing excavations in Ethiopia, Afar Triangle desert, when found the remains.

The high degree of skeletal conservation was one of the facts that surprised Johnson and Gray. The researchers have named Lucy the fossil after discovering that the bones belonged to a woman and because they are listening to music Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds , the Beatles, both during excavations as the celebrations after the historic discovery.

If you want to see the live fossil Lucy can find it at the National Museum of Ethiopia, located in the capital, Addis Ababa. The Natural History Museum in Cleveland and the Field Museum in Chicago, both in the US also have replicas of bones.

In Latin, the skeleton is called Australopithecus afarensis, meaning” southern ape of Afar small. “

The doodle Tuesday shows internet users the letters of the company name with a Diamente style and color in the center, one sees an evolution of ape to man, to walk from left to right.

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