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.

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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.

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.

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 ...

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

Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy, ... African scholars were never part of telling the human story; nor could they actively participate in the analysis of the fossils they found.

Lucy was stolen from Africa as an infant and sold to Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts. She was baptized during the Great Awakening, and nineteen years later, at the age of 20, she was ...