Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum. Lucy’s skeleton, which is 40% ...

Tourism Minister Selamawit Kassa said that the remains of Lucy (Dinknesh) and Selam will promote Ethiopia’s rich prehistory ...

A team of researchers led by ASU found strange fossils in Ethiopia. They believe they've discovered a new species related to ...

The framed hominid fossil "Lucy," is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time in Prague this year, the ...

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery.

Donald Johanson excavating Lucy’s pelvis. Credit: ASU Institute of Human Origins On November 24, 1974—50 years ago this November—a pair of paleoanthropologists made the discovery of a lifetime: a set ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis remains in 1974, recalls the moment he found the iconic fossil.

Lucy was a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an extinct hominin – a group that includes humans and our fossil relatives. Australopithecus afarensis lived from 3.8 million years ...

The reconstructed skeleton of Lucy, found in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974, and Grace Latimer, then age 4, daughter of a research team member. James St. John/Flickr, CC BY In 1974, on a survey in Hadar ...