Donald Johanson excavating a fossil in 1975. (Image credit: David Brill) Finding Lucy. The modern story of Lucy began on Nov. 24, 1974, in Hadar, Ethiopia.

Joyous partyers started calling the newfound fossil Lucy. With that thoroughly modern ... In 1925, anatomist and anthropologist Raymond Dart assigned the find to Australopithecus africanus ...

The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower ... Cranial and dental remains from this find allowed researchers to reconstruct the skull of that species, Australopithecus afarensis.

The find would thrust him into the limelight ... a species identified from South African fossils. Johanson posited that Lucy and her kind were better candidates as the ancestors to later humans ...

Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, ...

Finding Lucy: What was the crucial ... In 1973, when Don Johanson found a surprisingly human-looking fossil knee at Hadar in Ethiopia that tuned out to be more than 3 million years old, ...

Another member of the group shouted out, they ought to call their ancient find Lucy. And in the half-century ... the anthropological community that the fossils from South Africa found way back ...

While there are now fossil hominins twice as old as Lucy, she remains a paleoanthropological ... I’d always wanted to go to Africa to find something and by golly this was something.

Finding Lucy The modern story of Lucy began on Nov. 24, 1974, in Hadar, Ethiopia. Johanson and then-graduate student Tom Gray stumbled upon a bone poking out of a gully.

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. News Today's news ...