Dr. Johanson and his team were looking for the evolutionary “missing link”… the creature who had evolved from a plain old ape ...
About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil ...
Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.
It was some other species that we know very little about. They call them Denisovans. How have views of Lucy changed over ...
Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...
On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...
Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...
When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment ... but I didn’t realise it would actually launch a new species,” says Johanson. Lucy’s anatomy provided evidence that ...