More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

In fact, the world knew the skeleton and the species it represented as “Lucy” long before the hominin ... Colonialist explorations of East Africa started turning up A. afarensis fossils ...

Archaeologists unearthed the tools in an area of Africa dubbed "the ... In November 1974, the skeleton of a small female was discovered and nicknamed Lucy. Lucy is part of the genus ...

Sharing characteristics of both Australopithecus africanus, a previously discovered hominin from South Africa, and chimpanzees, Lucy was assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis. Lucy's ...

We carry the genes of Africa in all of us ... much less a complete skeleton of an infant.” Zeresenay explained that the discoveries of Lucy and Selam have been instrumental in public outreach ...

But about 40 percent of Lucy’s skeleton was recovered ... From that moment, Johanson dreamed of going to Africa to search for this ancient connection, and in 1970 he began working there.

“Lucy” is the fossil skeleton that forever changed our understanding of where we came from. Fifty years after her discovery in Africa, scientists are still unraveling how Lucy and her species ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

We carry the genes of Africa in all of us ... much less a complete skeleton of an infant." Zeresenay explained that the discoveries of Lucy and Selam have been instrumental in public outreach ...