Ethiopian fossil reveals face of a supposed ancestor of the species popularly depicted by Lucy

An Ethiopian fossil lets researchers look away on our developmental past for millions of years — and they see a face looking back. The discovery shows the face of a supposed ancestor of the species popularly depicted by Lucy, the famous partial skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, from 3.8 million years earlier. This ancestral species is Australopithecus earliest recognized member, a group of animals preceding our family tree branch ....