Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there.

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.

Fossils of hominins — the group that includes modern humans and our close ancestors — had been dated to 1. ... Lucy was identified as a member of a new species called Australopithecus afarensis.

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, ... Australopithecus afarensis.

Lucy and other members of her species, Australopithecus afarensis, lived between 3.9 and 3.0 million years ago. They are believed to be the most ancient common ancestor, or "stem" species, from ...

Dr. Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modeled the leg and pelvis muscles of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis using scans of 'Lucy': the famous fossil specimen discovered in Ethiopia in the mid-1970s.

Matt Sponheimer, a CU Boulder professor of anthropology, notes that the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy is "instantly recognizable in a world awash in fossils." Officially labeled ...

100 years ago. The discovery of fossil remains of a “man ape“ in South Africa raises many points of great interest for those who are studying the evolution of man and of man-like apes.

(CNN) — When the remains of an early human ancestor were found in Ethiopia in 1974, the discovery provided an unprecedented look at a species that lived millions of years ...

video: A 3D polygonal model, guided by imaging scan data and muscle scarring, reconstructing the lower limb muscles of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, known as ‘Lucy’. view ...

Lucy was not the only Australopithecus. Even older than her, Ardipithecus - discovered in 1994 - blended apelike and humanlike characteristics. Side branches like Paranthropus appear in the fossil ...