Fossil autopsy claims Lucy fell from tree
Disputed analysis says early hominid broke multiple bones

LUCY’S PLUNGE Scientists say that damage to the 3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton dubbed Lucy suggests that this ancient hominid plummeted to her death from high in a tree. That’s a controversial conclusion.
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