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News Release 12-059

Burtele Foot Indicates Lucy Not Alone

Discovery of partial foot skeleton could mean hominin species lived side by side

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Photo of the Burtele partial foot after cleaning and preparation.

The Burtele partial foot (BRT-VP-2/73). A laboratory photo after cleaning and preparation. It is shown here in its anatomically articulated form.

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Photo of Yohannes Haile-Selassie holding a fossil fragment.

Lead author Yohannes Haile-Selassie, curator of physical anthropology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, in the field investigating a fossil fragment.

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Photo showing researchers sifting dirt in pursuit of fossil bones.

The sifted dirt is carefully picked using small picking pans and each bone fragment is picked and checked for possible fragments of the partial foot.

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Photo of the fourth metatarsal of the Burtele partial foot in researcher Stephanie Melillo's hand.

The fourth metatarsal of the Burtele partial foot right after discovery in researcher Stephanie Melillo's hand.

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Panoramic view of northwestern part of the Woranso-Mille study area.

Panoramic view of northwestern part of the Woranso-Mille study area.

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