Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil ...

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.

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...

Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.

In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...

The picture of human evolution has changed repeatedly and dramatically over the past half century, shaped by waves of new ...

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 ...