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

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

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

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...

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

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

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

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the ...

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 ...

This is a photo of Lucy. Or rather, it’s Lucy, as she was imagined by a sculptor working for a museum. Probably the National ...