on yahoo new i seen a picture they said was a 3 million?

Question

little girl skull to me it look like a ape not a girl
did anyone see it one thing they find million years bone i can't find a 10 years bone

if it look lika ape i like know how u prove
that a girl and not a ape yes i do dig and
all the been kill this years the bone go

Answer 1

Are you digging and looking for one.

Answer 2

You know nothing.

3 million years old bone is made of rock. It is a fossil.

That is what fossils are - they are a rare occurrence where conditions were just right that the decaying bone leaves an empty space, that is filled by mud which then hardens to form rock in the shape of the original bone.

If this happened frequently, fossil bones would be everywhere, because billions of animals and humans have come and gone. However, it only happens under special conditions, thus the rarity of fossils.

Heck, you are on the internet. Why not go and search for this stuff and read, instead of showing your gross ignorance.

Answer 3

It's called 'fossilization' and it involves the replacement of calcium with other minerals (which usually precipitate out of slow water seepage) leaving a more durable copy of the original specimen.

It's not too surprising that the little girl looks more like an ape than a modern day human. But there are some very big differences in the shape of the skull and a definite lack of any 'prosimean' ridge (which is found in *all* apes). She's clearly a very distant ancester of ours.


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Doug

Answer 4

The "little girl" skull is NOT homo-sapiens (..human) It's that of an extinct species called Africanus afarensis which is a point in evolution between ape and man.

And just because YOU can't find a ten-year-old bone hardly means that someone else can't find fossilized bones that are 3-million years old.

Answer 5

This is what happens when what you understand from science you get from "only looking at the pictures." Don't just glance at a photo. Click on it. READ the article. It answers many of your questions (about how they know what it is).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060920/sc_nm/ethiopia_fossil_dc

And then realize that the people studying a fossil don't just glance at a photo on the internet and say "looks like an ape to me." These are people who spend their entire lives looking at fossils. They know when and where things were discovered. They know how to tell a female pelvis from a male one; how to tell a child from an adult; how to determine that it stood upright (from the structure of the feet and leg bones, the position and wear in the hip joints, etc.); what it ate (from the teeth); how big its brain is (from the size of the cranium of the skull); etc. etc.

And most of all they know how to compare this fossil with hundreds of others.

And they know how to determine how old it is (from known rate of decay of radioactive atoms in rocks).

Please don't presume you can tell more than all these scientists from glancing at a photo on the internet. These are pretty smart people.

Answer 6

now this is another one of these people or persons that have a hidden agenda or juat plain looking for trouble somewhere why dont you go somewhere else with your agenda somewhere or someplace that will accomodate this type of trivia