Dated to 3.2 million years ago, Lucy was the oldest and most complete human ancestor ever found at the time of her discovery. Two features set humans apart from all other primates: big brains and ...

At the time of the discovery, this was the oldest human-like being ever unearthed by fossil hunters, and she was given the name Lucy. Fifty years after Johanson and Gray’s discovery, it remains ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a non ...

For Sahleselasie Melaku, the 31-year-old head of the palaeontology department, Lucy's discovery represented an emergence from a "dark age" in our understanding of human ancestors. "The impact of ...