'LUCY' an evidence to evolution!

Today is the 41st anniversary of the discovery of 'Lucy', which might have been noticed by many of you on the google doodle. google has honored Lucy by it's doodle today.

 

Let me tell you some interesting facts about 'Lucy'.

'Lucy' is a collection of fossilized bones that once made up the skeleton of a hominid from the Australopithecus afarensis species. Lucy was discovered 41 years ago by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson in 1974, Ethiopia. She was the first human-like ape and is supposed that she walked mostly on two legs, as suggested by her bone curvatures. She lived in Ethiopia 3.2 millions years ago.
The fossilized bones represent 40% of the skeleton of a female hominin species.

How 'Lucy' got her name 'Lucy'

Lucy acquired her name from the song 'lucy in the sky with diamond'  by the Beatles, which was played loudly and repeatedly in the camp when someone shouted 'let's call her Lucy'. After which the name became most common in the households.

 Mysteries about her

  The studies tell that she was young yet, a fully grown adult. Her age has not been confirmed yet but the studies of her fossils has declared that she was pretty small in height. She stood 1.1m (3.7ft) tall and weighed 29 kgs only.

The cause of her death is yet to be find out. The few clues we have about Lucy's cause of death can only rule things out, rather than provide solid answers. There is not much evidence of teeth on her skeleton, suggesting she was not killed and scavenged by other animals after she died.However, there is one tooth mark from a carnivore on the top of her left pubic bone - but it's not known whether this happened before she died, or whether she was bitten after.

The skeleton lies hidden away from public in a specially constructed safe in the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, not far from where she was discovered. Only her plaster replica is available to be seen by the public. However, the real skeleton was exhibited publicly in a six years tour of US and  the exhibition was called Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia