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

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family."The impact of the discovery was very big in the discipline ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

Lucy was often described as "the grandmother of humanity", but more recent discoveries suggest she may have been more like an ...

The hominid was discovered on November 24 ... The 52 bone fragments, amounting to some 40 percent of Lucy’s skeleton, was, at ...

The hominid was discovered on November 24 ... The 52 bone fragments, amounting to some 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton, was, at the time, the most complete ever found, and revolutionized the ...

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 ...