Monday 22 May 2017

A fossil find with real backbone

The skull of Selam, a 2 1/2-year-old toddler found in Dikika, Ethiopia

It may have taken 13 years to get her all cleaned up, but a toddler's fossil named Selam has finally be separated from the sandstone in which she was entombed. Beneath the rock was a surprise: The most complete spinal column of any early human relative. The discovery changes the point at which we thought our spines began to evolve by several million years.

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