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How do we know Lucy was female? Was Lucy an adult? Was "Lucy's baby" really Lucy's baby? Share Tweet Email. Why it's so hard to treat pain in infants. This wild African cat has adapted to life in a big city.

Animals Wild Cities This wild African cat has adapted to life in a big city Caracals have learned to hunt around the urban edges of Cape Town, though the predator faces many threats, such as getting hit by cars.

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Animals Wild Cities Morocco has 3 million stray dogs. Meet the people trying to help. Environment COP26 nears conclusion with mixed signals and frustration. Finally, Lucy was molded and cast in silicone. Finishing touches included painting the work and individually implanting natural-looking hair with a special needle. A hidden metal armature supports the completed reconstruction from within.

The two new representations of Lucy were created under the direction of Haile-Selassie. Skeletal reconstructions are always based on available fossil material. If you have questions about how to cite anything on our website in your project or classroom presentation, please contact your teacher. They will best know the preferred format. When you reach out to them, you will need the page title, URL, and the date you accessed the resource. If a media asset is downloadable, a download button appears in the corner of the media viewer.

If no button appears, you cannot download or save the media. Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Terms of Service. Any interactives on this page can only be played while you are visiting our website. You cannot download interactives. Where did we come from? Humans continue to search for the answer to this fundamental question. Over the years, we've turned to both religion and science to explain where our species came from.

Innovators of their time, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, used science to explain where humans came from, posing the theory of evolution. Then, Mary and Louis Leaky explored the fossil record to see if they could piece together the story of humans.