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

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

November marked 50 years since Lucy was found. Her partial skeleton upended several assumptions about the course of human ...

Fossilised remains of 'Lucy', considered ancestor of the human species, was found 50 years ago Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human made it to the fossil ...

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human evolution because she lived 3.2 million years ago, evolutionarily halfway between our ape ancestors and us. But Lucy is just one of many famous ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins. Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the ...

He studied the fossils, whose discovery took place 50 years ago this month. He is now 74 and lives in Burgos, Spain, as a scientist affiliated with the National Center for Research on Human Evolution, ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a non ...