ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subterranean ...

In her Ethiopian homeland, Lucy is called "dinknesh," which means the wondrous one. The find was the first proof that our human predecessors could already walk upright 3.2 million years ago.

All this fighting, over a girl. The Smithsonian says she should stay home. The Houston Museum of Natural Science says she should come visit. Earlier this week, the State Department issued the ...

Thanks to Lucy, who is classified as Australopithecus afarensis, scientists were first able to establish that human ancestors walked upright before evolving a big brain. "People care about her.

In this video segment, Don Johanson describes finding the knee joint in Hadar, Ethiopia, that first indicated a bipedal hominid had lived 3 million years ago. His subsequent expedition led to the ...

Lucy, or Dinknesh (meaning ‘you are amazing’ in Amharic), had returned from a five-year tour of the United States. For the first time since she was discovered in 1974 by paleoanthropologist Donald ...

President Obama on Monday visited Ethiopia’s oldest national treasure, and, as one of the experts on hand pointed out, it’s one of the few connections he shares with Donald Trump. Obama viewed ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia >> Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subte… ...

Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subterranean churches out of solid ...