ARDI, un nuevo espécimen (Fragmento)

"White and colleagues found the first signs of the new species in what is known as the Middle Awash, a site in a treeless desert that 4 million years ago would have been much wetter, teeming with birds, reptiles and primates and thickly covered with a fig and palm trees. On Nov. 5, 1994, Haile-Selassie, then a Berkeley graduate student and now a curator at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, found two finger bones. Further digging turned up scraps of a pelvis, feet, hands, chips from a skull. By the end of three years of digging, the scientists realized they'd found a paleontological treasure, a partial skeleton, broken up and ravaged by time. This was Ardi."