article_snippet.sent: Now, a new look at the ancient hominin's skeleton suggests one of the vertebra bones may, in fact, belong to a baboon.
article_snippet.sent: A new look at the ancient hominin's skeleton suggests one of the vertebra bones may belong to a baboon .
article_snippet.sent: The strange discovery of a baboon bone was made when Gary Sawyer and Mike Smith at the American Museum of Natural History in New York began work on a reconstruction of Lucy's skeleton (right)
article_snippet.sent: The strange discovery of a baboon bone was made when Gary Sawyer and Mike Smith at the American Museum of Natural History in New York the American Museum of Natural History in New York New York began work on a reconstruction of Lucy's skeleton. '
article_snippet.sent: The team then compared it to the vertebrae of other creatures living in that region 3.2 million years ago, and found a baboon bone was the closest fit.
article_snippet.sent: Williams told New Scientist that the fossil of a gelada baboon thoracic vertebra must have somehow been mixed up with Lucy's remains.
article_snippet.sent: Even if one fragment of a bone from the spine turns out to be from a baboon it does not alter the larger picture of what Lucy brings to the story of human evolution.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Baboon bone was spotted by the American Museum of Natural History .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Researchers say Baboon bone was somehow mixed up with Lucy's remains .
  