The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...
Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.
Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974.
This is a photo of Lucy. Or rather, it’s Lucy, as she was imagined by a sculptor working for a museum. Probably the National ...
It was exactly 50 years ago on Nov. 24, 1974 that white men from America, France and Britain on a scientific expedition in ...