The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

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.

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

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

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

Creating these images takes a wealth of scientific insight ... A near-complete set of fossil vertebrae (backbones) and an intact upper leg bone show Lucy was roughly three-and-a-half feet tall.

An old photo of Donald Johanson sitting in the dirt and excavating a bone The modern story of Lucy began on Nov. 24, 1974, in ...

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 ...