The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...

Learn about the discovery of Tyrannosaur fossils in the southern coast of England, showing that the dinosaurs lived in the ...

The discovery of Lucy 50 years ago transformed the study of human evolution, confirming Africa as the origin of all humans ...

The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which was ...

Lucy quickly became a celebrity of the fossil record. As a kid growing up ... “The common conception is that we’re finding the grandmother [of humanity], and we’re never finding that ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Lucy shot to superstardom after her discovery in Ethiopia in 1974. The members of the archaeological expedition who found her named her after the Beatles song "Lucy in the sky with diamonds".

The footprints date back to about 166 million years ago and appear to belong to two distinct types of dinosaurs ...

NASA’s Lucy is a record-breaking mission that will study a record-breaking 11 asteroids across the Solar System. Three of them are already under its belt; it passed close to asteroid Dinkinesh ...