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

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

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

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...

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

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

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

Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974.

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 ...

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the ...

Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old—in Ethiopia 50 ...