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

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

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia and when she was found 50 years ago, she was the oldest known human specimen in existence. The remains of the proto-human are 3.18-million-year-old and they ...

Lucy, a fossilized skeleton ... she was the oldest known and the most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor when she was found. CNN spoke to Johanson, 81, founding director of the Institute ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family."The impact of the discovery was very big in the discipline ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a non ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family ... amounting to some 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton, was, at the time, the most complete ever found, and revolutionised the ...

While there are now fossil hominins twice as old as Lucy, she remains a paleoanthropological rock star. Made up of 47 bones from the same individual, she was the oldest known and the most complete ...

What was the crucial change that set us on the path to becoming human ... was the most complete hominid skeleton that had been found up to that time. Although Lucy's skull was incomplete, enough ...