Fifty years ago, Donald Johanson found "Lucy," a 3.2 million-year-old fossil. She changed the story of human evolution.

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

Lucy has and continues to play a fundamental role in our understanding of our ancient ancestors and how we evolved.

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

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

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...

Reportedly, Dr. Johanson returned to camp in 1974 with some of Lucy’s fossilized remains, and as team celebrated, someone ...

Stunning Discovery of ‘Lucy’ Fossil Revealed Humans Were Walking On Feet 3.2 Million Years Ago Experts find human evolution a ...

Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old—in Ethiopia 50 ...

On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...