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.

In 1975, just one year after Lucy was found at Afar Locality 288, the Hadar team discovered more than 200 fossil hominin specimens eroding from a single layer of rock at nearby Afar Locality 333.

If an efficient two-legged stance kept Lucy grounded, as suggested by another A. afarensis fossil find (SN: 6/21/10), then she probably died from some other cause.

Fifty years ago, Donald Johanson found "Lucy," a 3.2 million-year-old fossil. She changed the story of human evolution. Local Sports Things To Do Politics Travel Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals ...

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

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.

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, ...

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

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.

Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. The search for human ancestors. As a kid growing up in Connecticut, Johanson got a book from a neighbor that planted an electrifying idea: ...

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 ...