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A 2-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Shows Early Humans Were Still Built for the Trees
(www.discovermagazine.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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I'm pretty sure the skull in the image is a partial reconstruction based on what we have. The lighter parts are the existing skull fragments and the darker parts are the reconstruction. Like a puzzle with missing pieces.
I think you have that backwards. The dark parts are the authentic fragments and the light part is reconstruction.
The light part has too uniform coloration to be millions of years old, and there's not enough of it to extrapolate the rest such as brow, eye socket, and teeth
I think you're right, my bad!