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.

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery.

It is November 24, 1974, when a group of researchers discovers in an archaeological site in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia the ...

After spending more than three years analyzing the find, an international team that included Haile-Selassie, PhD, curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland ... to the same time period and ...

Since her public debut in 1978, Lucy has been on a first-name basis with the world. Not bad for someone from rural Ethiopia who had been an unknown for 3.2 million years or so. Even for those of ...