She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a non ...

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there. Editor's note: This article is part of ...

Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a non-descript room in the National Museum of Ethiopia, the 3.18-million ...

On November 24 1974, renowned American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson spotted “a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy” poking out of a rocky hillside in northern Ethiopia. It was the ...

The modern story of Lucy began on Nov. 24, 1974, in Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson and then-graduate student Tom Gray stumbled upon a bone poking out of a gully. Following two weeks of careful ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil "Lucy" at Addis Ababa's National Museum, Ethiopia, on May 7, 2013. The skeleton was discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson on November 24, 1974.

Very few people had been to this region of Ethiopia, and people began launching their own expeditions and finding even more exciting things in some ways. But I think that Lucy was the spark.

Bone fragments of the fossil skeleton of 'Lucy' displayed at the National Museum of Ethiopia. She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of ...