The team made a skeleton, covered the bones with a clay body, and added plumage made of pheasant feathers trimmed to match impressions preserved in fossils.

团队制作了一个骨架，骨架上覆盖着和骨头和粘土肉体，再添加上翅膀，翅膀是由雉鸡羽毛制作的，羽毛经过修剪来符合化石中保留的印记。

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That's how long it took for an international team of scientists to excavate and analyze the fossilized skeleton of a 4.4 million year old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, which was discovered in Ethiopia.

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Working with Philippa Langley, of the Richard III Society, a University of Leicester team uncovered a skeleton in September 2012 and its identity was confirmed earlier this month.

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It was here he and his team unearthed the most complete skeleton of Australopithecus ever found.

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"That's Uhlaender, " says Joy Bryant, a skeleton teammate who, like everyone else on the national team, refers to her by her last name.

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