Yohannes Haile-Selassie is responsible for some of the most remarkable ancient human fossil discoveries in his home country.
Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...
A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974.
Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...
Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ago this month, transformed scientists’ understanding of human evolution.
Her species provided compelling evidence that upright walking evolved before large brains in human evolution.
On the anniversary of Lucy’s discovery, paleoanthropologists reflect on what she means to science, and what she taught us ...