Preserved in volcanic ash and measuring 27 meters (88 feet) long, the 3.6-million-year-old footprint trail was likely left behind by one of the earliest hominin species, Australopithecus afarensis—the ...
Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974.
The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...
She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...
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