Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...

Research Reveals Iconic Ancient Fossil ‘Lucy’ Last Hours on Earth, Suggest She Was in Danger and Not Alone Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his team on the International Afar Research ...

Dr. Johanson and his team were looking for the evolutionary “missing link”… the creature who had evolved from a plain old ape ...

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

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

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

Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...

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.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, about the 50th anniversary of his biggest discovery, Lucy, an early human ancestor.

Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old—in Ethiopia 50 years ago.

Discovering Lucy ushered in a new way of thinking about ... Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray spent the morning of November 24, 1974, mapping and surveying possible ...

Fifty years after her discovery, in Ethiopia, on November 24, 1974, Lucy remains iconic among prehuman fossils. When American Paleontologist Donald Johanson and Tom Gray, the student who ...