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I tried to add this to an old thread that was about that half-fish/half land creature 'missing link' they found, but I kept crashing Internet Explorer.
So, I had to start a new thread- for anyone interested in the latest major archaeological find.

http://tinyurl.com/f3jzx

Fossil hunters have unearthed the fossil skeleton of a toddler who died 3.3 million years ago, marking the first time scientists have discovered the nearly complete remains of a child of an ancient human ancestor.

The child, a girl who was about 3 years old when she perished in what may have been a flash flood, provides an unprecedented window into human evolution, in part because she belongs to the same species as ``Lucy," one of the most famous hominid specimens in paleontology, specialists said. That prompted some scientists to refer to the new skeleton as ``Lucy's baby," even though they estimate she lived some 150,000 years earlier. The researchers who discovered her in an Ethiopian desert named her Selam, which means peace in Ethiopian.


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The remains also confirm how much of a hybrid these creatures were between humans and apes. They had legs like humans that enabled them to walk upright , but they had shoulders like gorillas that may have also enabled them to climb trees; their teeth seem to have grown quickly, like chimps' teeth, but their brains may have matured more slowly, like humans.

``This confirms the idea that human evolution was not some straight line going from ape to human," said Rick Potts of the Smithsonian Institution. ``The more we discover, the more we realize that different parts evolve at different times, and some of these experiments of early evolution had a combination of human-like and ape-like features."