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  • In a 2009 photo provided by the Dikika Research Project shows two parallel cutmarks made by stone tools on the rib of a cow-sized mammal. The discovery in Ethiopia of two cut-marked bones provides the oldest known evidence of tool use and meat eating by human ancestors. Dated to 3.4 million years ago, they are nearly a million years older than any previously known cut-marked fossils. (AP Photo/Dikika Research Project)

    `Lucy' species used stone tools, fossil study says

    Two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the use of stone tools by about 800,000 years, researchers say.


  • Illustration: Fedzilla by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    NUGENT: Bureaucrats burn our bucks

    Sen. John McCain and Sen. Tom Coburn just released a report on more of Fedzilla's insane and wasteful blowtorching of our tax dollars on things we don't need or want and only someone mentally deranged would allow. After reading an article that illuminated the most wasteful examples of torching our tax dollars, I'm surprised my request for a federal grant to study gopher hunting with grenades on the White House lawn was denied. Seemed like such a gimme.


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