<i>Australopithecus</i> Fossils Found East of the Great Rift Valley (IMAGE)

Kyoto University

<i>Australopithecus</i> Fossils Found East of the Great Rift Valley

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An international team of paleontologists led by Emma Mbua of Mount Kenya University and Masato Nakatsukasa of Kyoto University report findings of fossilized teeth and forearm bone from an adult male and two infant A. afarensis from an exposure eroded by the Kantis River in Ongata-Rongai, a settlement in the outskirts of Nairobi.

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Masato Nakatsukasa / Kyoto University

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