The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants Riley Black Science Correspondent A sculptor's rendering of "Lucy ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy." From a distance, it might have looked like a small child was wending her way through the waving grass along a vast lake. But a closer look would have ...

The fossil record offers snapshots of the past, revealing how life has evolved over millions of years. By studying fossils, ...

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 ...

About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric forests of what is now Ethiopia, a small human was folded into the fossil ...