About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil record. No one knows for sure what killed them. Perhaps it was a fall from a tree.

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

Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add complexity to our ancestral history.

The hominid was discovered on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeast Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens, Donald Johanson, Jon Kalb, and Raymonde Bonnefille.

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

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family."The impact of the discovery was very big in the discipline and even the whole world," he told AFP. Lucy showed that members of the human family existed beyond three million years ago,

It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, Ethiopia, on the morning of November 24, 1974. The two had initially set out to map the location but decided to have a look around for any signs of fossils while they were there.

Stunning Discovery of ‘Lucy’ Fossil Revealed Humans Were Walking On Feet 3.2 Million Years Ago Experts find human evolution a complicated subject. Over the years, with discoveries worldwide, the subject of evolution has garnered more clarity.