The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

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

Stunning Discovery of ‘Lucy’ Fossil Revealed Humans Were Walking On Feet 3.2 Million Years Ago Experts find human evolution a ...

The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human made it to the fossil record. Despite much ...

An old photo of Donald Johanson sitting in the dirt and excavating a bone The modern story of Lucy began on Nov. 24, 1974, in ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

Creating these images takes a wealth of scientific insight ... A near-complete set of fossil vertebrae (backbones) and an intact upper leg bone show Lucy was roughly three-and-a-half feet tall.

While there are now fossil hominins twice as old as Lucy, she remains a paleoanthropological rock star. Made up of 47 bones from the same individual, she was the oldest known and the most complete ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...