For decades after Lucy's discovery, paleoanthropologists assumed A. afarensis was the only hominin that lived in this region during the middle Pliocene epoch (3 million to 4 million years ago).

'Lucy' is a collection of fossilised bones that once made up the skeleton of a hominid from the Australopithecus afarensis species. She lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago.

A sculptor's rendering of "Lucy," Australopithecus afarensis, at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on August 28, 2007. Dave Einsel / Getty Images About 3.2 million years ago, among the ...

As evidence for A. afarensis grew, Lucy came to symbolize the entire species. The Hadar field team in 1974 (shown) excavated hundreds of fossil fragments belonging to Lucy’s skeleton.

Paleoanthropologist John Kappelman has 3D printouts of Lucy’s skeleton, illustrating the compressive fractures in her right humerus that she suffered at the time of her death 3.18 million years ...

The dissenting A. afarensis camp contends that Lucy and her relatives retained some skeletal remnants of their tree-dwelling ancestry – a sign they still spent time in the branches, and that ...

Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis is commemorated today in a Google Doodle that recalls a picture that she helped show had a big problem.. The picture shows Lucy standing in the middle of a ...

A 3D polygonal model, guided by imaging scan data and muscle scarring, reconstructing the lower limb muscles of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, known as ‘Lucy’.

There has also been significant debate over precisely how frequently and efficiently Lucy and her fellow Australopithecus afarensis walked. Specifically, Lucy had a much wider pelvis and shorter ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis ...

For decades after Lucy's discovery, paleoanthropologists assumed A. afarensis was the only hominin that lived in this region during the middle Pliocene epoch (3 million to 4 million years ago).