Thursday, March 25, 2010

New Ancestor Found?


Scientists recently found a tiny little pinky finger bone in a cave in Siberia and discovered that its DNA was pre-human and didn't belong to any known species. Bingo bango! A new link in the chain of human DNA! Not a Neanderthal, not a modern human, but a whole new species. They've nicknamed this new "creature" (I don't think that's a very respectful way to refer to our possible ancestor!) has been nicknamed "Woman X". Imagine that. They can tell, from a tiny little pinky bone, that it's a woman, that it's from an unknown species, and that it's pre-human. With all that scientists can figure out nowadays, they should soon be able to tell us what her name was!

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