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Images of
the Year
In 2019, more than a
black hole caught our eye.
BY GEMMA TARLACHFACE TO FACE
AT L A S T
Announced in
August, this
3.8 million-year-
old fossil is the
first skull of
Australopithecus
anamensis to be
found. Its discovery
in Ethiopia is
revising what we
know about this
distant human
relative.
— IMAGE BY DALE OMORI,
COURTESY OF THE CLEVELAND
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY