Discovered half a century ago in Ethiopia, the bones of Lucy, the most famous of the Australopithecus, are set to be ...

It has now been 50 years since Lucy’s skeleton was found on that Ethiopian slope, and over the decades she has become an iconic figure in the story of human evolution. "Lucy" may not sound like ...

Those remains, excavated 50 years ago, would come to be recognized as one of the most important fossil discoveries ever made, known to the world as “Lucy.” Anthropologists also refer to the ...