出稼ぎするLucy

BBCの報道によれば、エチオピアの320万年前の化石Lucyが6年の出張に出かける。これは博物館の建て替え工事費用を稼ぐため。

The oldest humanoid skeleton ever found has been taken out of Ethiopia for a controversial tour of American museums.
Archaeologists say the 3.2m-year-old remains - known as Lucy - are far too fragile to be moved around.

But Ethiopia said it would use cash raised from the six-year tour to fund museums back home and build new ones.
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Zelalem Assefa, an Ethiopian who works at the Smithsonian Institution, a prestigious US research institute, said in Addis Ababa he disapproved of the tour.

He told the Associated Press news agency: "These are original, irreplaceable materials. These are things you don't gamble with."

[Famous fossil Lucy starts US tour(2007/08/06) on BBC]

なんとLucyの現物がお出かけ。まずは、米国の"Houston Museum of Natural Science"に展示される。

さて、以前より「'Lucy' isn't the 'Missing Link'!(Lucyはミッシングリンクではない)」とか「 Lucy (and her "child")look like extinct apes after all (結局Lucyは滅亡した類人猿のようにみえる)」とか言ってきた、"若い地球の創造論"ミニストリAnswers in Genesisは何か反応するかな？