The ancient hominid known as Lucy is getting shouldered into the trees by a recently uncovered fossil child. But scientific onlookers disagree about whether Lucy’s long-extinct species mixed tree climbing with walking.
The right shoulder blade from a 3.3-million-year-old fossil child provides evidence that members of an ancient hominid species regularly scaled trees as well as walked across the landscape.
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