Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that ...

After having Lucy for a few months, they realized Lucy needed to be around other capuchins and donated her to Wild Acres, a private zoo in McHenry. In late 2023, April adopted Louie, a spider ...

Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

The fossil, which dates to 3.2 million years ago and represents 40 percent of Lucy’s skeleton, is often described as having a mix of human and ape features.

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Research later found that Lucy would have had a mixture of ape-like and human-body features. Now experts have discovered the small knives known as flakes in the historical area.

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago. Here is the history of humanity as we know it today.

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar ...

Lucy is so renowned that then-President Barack Obama viewed the bones during a trip to Ethiopia in 2015. Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn stands to Obama’s left.

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.