The hominid was discovered on November 24, 1974, in the Afar region of northeast Ethiopia by a team of scientists led by ...

It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

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

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

Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's discovery, which upended the study of human evolution.

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family."The impact of the discovery was very big in the discipline ...

The hominid was discovered on November 24 ... The 52 bone fragments, amounting to some 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton, was, at the time, the most complete ever found, and revolutionised the ...