A representative model of the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of Lucy, on display in Ethiopia. Credit: AFP/Getty Images Lucy, a famous early human ancestor that lived about 3.2 million years ago ...

Our ancestor "Lucy," a young adult Australopithecus afarensis, became world-famous half a century ago after Donald Johanson and colleagues discovered her remarkably complete skeleton in Ethiopia.

The team first scanned Lucy’s bones, which represent about 40 percent of her complete skeleton, using X-ray computed tomography. The technique allowed them to peer deep into the fossils, and trace the ...

Belonging to the speciesArdipithecus ramidus, the adult female—"Ardi" for short—is more than a million years older than the famous Lucy skeleton and much more informative about one of ...

provide evidence of human evolution which has modified our conception of the history of humankind. The most spectacular discovery came in 1974, when 52 fragments of a skeleton enabled the famous Lucy ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

“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 hominin Lucy, found back in the 1970s, in Ethiopia, has over time become the most famous of all the ancient hominins, both because of the good condition of her skeleton, and because of what ...

The most spectacular discovery came in 1974, when 52 fragments of a skeleton enabled the famous Lucy to be reconstructed. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 La vallée de l'Aouache ...

The most spectacular discovery came in 1974, when 52 fragments of a skeleton enabled the famous Lucy to be reconstructed. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 La vallée de l'Aouache ...