As we reported at the time, University of Texas-Austin anthropologist John Kappelman and his team did a complete X-ray CT scan on Lucy's bones, allowing them to create high-resolution 3D renders ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.

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

Lucy’s bones were uncovered by Donald Johanson in 1974, at Hadar, Ethiopia. Originally thought to be part of the Homo genus, four years later Lucy, officially known as AL 288-1, ...

All four of Lucy’s main limb long bones are damaged or missing parts of the shaft, so their maximum length has to be estimated. Even so, ...

Lucy's remains at an exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2007. | Dave Einsel/GettyImages. Lucy was so special because she was so intact: hundreds of bones and parts of bones ...

The size of Lucy's thigh bone also revealed that she was only about 42 inches (1.1 meters) tall and 60 to 65 pounds (27 to 30 kilograms) — about the size of a 6- or 7-year-old child today.

Given how small Lucy’s bones are, it would suggest a female individual. Some may argue that perhaps this means the specimen was just a child, but Lucy’s teeth also show signs of age.

Lucy's ancient bones to tour US Enlarge Image. The skeleton of the fossilised, 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy, will go on display in the US, Ethiopian officials say. After four ...

50 years after the bones were discovered in Africa, the science spawned by the Lucy fossil is still growing. These are casts of her bones and this is a recreation of what Lucy might have looked like.

Lucy's 3 million-year-old bones were found in 1974, but they're still yielding new clues about human evolution.