The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

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

Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.

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

Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia and when she was found 50 years ago, she was the oldest known human specimen in existence. The remains of the proto-human are 3.18-million-year-old and they ...

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 modern story of Lucy began on Nov. 24, 1974, in Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson and then-graduate ... "I was in high school when she was found," John Kappelman, a paleoanthropologist at the ...

But much later, when I joined high school, maybe college ... and was assigned to work at the National Museum of Ethiopia where Lucy was housed in. The office I was assigned to work in was filled ...