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PHOTO GALLERY: Lucy, the 3-million year old fossil skeleton from Ethiopia, still has secrets to reveal




Visitors observe and photograph the replica display of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. AFP

Sahleselasie Melaku, 31, Head of the Department and Research Associate of the Paleontology and Paleoanthropology collections, examines a drawer containing fossil remains at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. AFP

Sahleselasie Melaku, 31, Head of the Department and Research Associate of the Paleontology and Paleoanthropology collections, holds a wooden box containing bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. AFP

Sahleselasie Melaku, 31, Head of the Department and Research Associate of the Paleontology and Paleoanthropology collections, examines bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. AFP

Sahleselasie Melaku, 31, Head of the Department and Research Associate of the Paleontology and Paleoanthropology collections, examines bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' using a computer microscope at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. AFP

Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' are displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. AFP

Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' are displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. AFP