Dr. Johanson and his team were looking for the evolutionary “missing link”… the creature who had evolved from a plain old ape ...
Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.
Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...
It was some other species that we know very little about. They call them Denisovans. How have views of Lucy changed over ...
On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...
Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old—in Ethiopia 50 ...
Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...
When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment ... but I didn’t realise it would actually launch a new species,” says Johanson. Lucy’s anatomy provided evidence that ...