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Lucy's museum tour threatens to become a spell in storage

Nature volume 457, page 775 (2009)Cite this article

The 3.2-million-year-old bones of 'Lucy' (pictured above), the skeleton of the Australopithecus afarensis hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, have undergone a complete high-resolution computed tomography scan. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have thereby created a digitized record that will allow the bones' internal structure to be examined (pictured below).

But interest from US museums in hosting an exhibition featuring the 40% complete skeleton is lagging, and officials say it will go into indefinite storage next month at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas.

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