Lucy Fossil Approved for US Tour

June 28, 2007 By NATASHA T. METZLER , Associated Press Writer Lucy Fossil Approved for US Tour (AP)

Fossil remains of Australopithecus afarensi, known as "Lucy," are shown on April 7, 2004, in Addis Ababa, Ethopia. The U.S. State Department gave final approval Wednesday, June 27, 2007, for one of the world\'s most famous fossils, the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974, to tour the U.S. on exhibit for the first time. The Smithsonian has objected to the idea, however, because museum experts don't think the fragile remains should travel, so Lucy won't be stopping at the National Natural History Museum, but in other U.S. museums instead. (AP Photo/Houston Museum of Natural Science, Dirk Van Tuerenhout, file)

(AP) -- A fossil tour doesn't have to mean an aging rock band's reunion concerts. The State Department gave final approval Wednesday for one of the world's most famous fossils - the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 - to tour the U.S. on exhibit for the first time.



Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:


Famous fossil Lucy scanned at the University of Texas at Austin

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 10

Rolling Stones delivered via phone

created Jul 28, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prehistoric pelvis offers clues to human development

created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Dinosaurs declined before mass extinction

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Indonesian elephant fossil opens window to past

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1


print this article email this article download pdf blog this article bookmark this article     Stumble it Digg this share on Facebook retweet share on Reddit add to delicious
Rate this story - 4.3 /5 (4 votes)


June 28, 2007 all stories

Comments: 0

4.3 /5 (4 votes)
  • Stumble this up

  • Digg this

  • share this



  • hide
  • Relevant PhysicsForums posts

  • Super quick question about Starling forces?
    created 12 hours ago
  • Questions about diffusion
    created 17 hours ago
  • Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing
    created Nov 21, 2009
  • Breeding program
    created Nov 20, 2009
  • More from Physics Forums - Biology

Other News

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (AP)

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (Update)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (27) | comments 28

(AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...


Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found (AP)

Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 6

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...


Maya

New insights into the life of the Maya

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient artifacts are almost always concerned with rich and powerful religious and political leaders, but new excavations of an ancient Maya site have unearthed a pyramid decorated with murals ...


Three of a kind

Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essence

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies ...


Only tax increase can cure Illinois budget woes, study says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Tax increases are the only solution to a widening budget crisis that a new study says has landed Illinois among the nation's most financially troubled states, a soon-to-be-released report by a team of University of Illinois ...