BREAKING NEWS – Houston, Texas – In 1974, the paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson led an expedition to Ethiopia to look for fossils of ancient human relatives. A fossil they discovered turned out to have come from a single three-foot-tall female that they believed lived 3.2 million years ago. The scientists named her species Australopithecus afarensis, and the skeleton was dubbed Lucy. Her death, on the other hand, has been a mystery. Now, after poring over the celebrated bones, a team of scientists has concluded that Lucy died most unceremoniously when she fell out of a tree. After spending 10 days at the University of Texas at Austin, where scientists put her bones through a CT scanner, they concluded that probable cause of her fall had something to do with the detection in her body, of a very primitive form of homemade whiskey.
