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.

What was the crucial change that set us on the path to becoming human? Our big brains, with their capacity for language and making complex tools, set us apart from other animals. Our ability to ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The Awash valley contains one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on the African continent ... when 52 fragments of a skeleton enabled the famous Lucy to be reconstructed.

And in case you’ve been wondering, the asteroid Donaldjohanson is named after American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, who discovered the “Lucy” fossil skeleton in in Ethiopia in 1974 ...