A NEW species of human ancestor, which looks like something halfway between the famed “Lucy” and true pre-humans, has been found in Ethiopia, scientists said on Thursday. More surprisingly, they found nearby evidence that the creature, named Australopithecus garhi, butchered and ate meat 2,5-million years ago. Other australopithecines are believed to have been vegetarian. The international team of researchers, led by Berhane Asfaw of Ethiopia’s Rift Valley Research Service and Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, scrabbled their specimen together from bits of bone and teeth found in the hard-baked rock of Ethiopia’s Middle Awash region. But they found enough to place it halfway between Lucy’s species, known as Australopithecus afarensis, and Homo habilis, a species that lived about two million years ago.