Underlying much of Lucy and IBM Research’s problem solving mission in Africa is improving data as a basis for more accurate solutions. The availability of accurate data on the continent remains ...

'Little Lucy' Found in Africa. By ABC News. September 20, 2006, ... The skeleton is believed to belong to the same evolutionary group as the iconic fossil "Lucy" discovered in 1974.

It was in a 1978 paper that Johanson, White and Coppens identified Lucy and other fossil hominids at Hadar and another East African site, Laetoli, as a new species.

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.

What ‘Lucy,’ One of the World’s Most Important Fossils, ... Between 3.9 million and 2.9 million years ago, these early humans lived among the woodlands and forests of eastern Africa, ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.

We carry the genes of Africa in all of us,” Johanson told VOA's Horn of Africa Service, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of iconic Lucy on Nov. 24, 1974.

A 2.5-million-year-old fossil of a hominin species called Australopithecus africanus had been discovered in South Africa. Lucy’s discovery on Nov. 24, 1974, by paleoanthropologist Donald ...

Lucy was found in 1974, almost exactly half a century after anatomist and anthropologist Raymond Dart had recognized the significance of a skull of a juvenile hominin found in Taung, South Africa.

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