FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy" — the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found — is seen at an exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in Addis Ababa on Oct. 24, 2006.

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AL 288-1 wasn’t the first of the species to be uncovered, nor the last, ... The fossil "Lucy" is unveiled in Ethiopia at Addis Ababa's National Museum on May 7, 2013.

50 years after her discovery, Lucy's skeleton still shapes paleoanthropology Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. ... This was terra incognita in the early ‘70s. Very few people had been to this region of Ethiopia, ...

In 2000 at another Ethiopian site, researchers discovered the nearly complete fossil skeleton of a 3-year-old girl from Lucy’s species, which they named Selam.

Don Johanson describes finding the knee joint in Hadar, Ethiopia, that first indicated a bipedal hominid had lived 3 million years ago. His subsequent expedition led to the discovery of Lucy, a 40 ...

The lore of Lucy’s discovery. On November 24, 1974, Johanson was searching for fossils of ancient human relatives or hominins in an area called Hadar in the Afar region of Ethiopia, when he ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.