The specimen was named after the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles, which was playing at the researchers' camp the night of the discovery. "I thought that she was a female ...

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery.

The exceedingly slim odds of the bones and teeth of a single individual being preserved, fossilized, exposed, discovered and recovered make the Lucy skeleton an exceptional discovery. The number ...

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After Lucy’s discovery, researchers debated whether ... Johanson presented a drawing of his proposed hominid family tree. Leakey scrawled a question mark over it. Decades later, Lucy and her ...

A reconstruction of Lucy at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt Museum in Germany shows what the ancient hominin might have looked like. Five decades after her discovery, she still captivates ...

KATHLEEN DAVIS: Take me back to that day where you discovered Lucy. What were you doing? How did you find her? DON JOHANSON: Well, it was a Sunday morning, and my student, Tom Gray, and I were out ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins. Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the ...

But to most people, she is known simply by her nickname, Lucy. With the discovery of Lucy, scientists were forced to reconsider key details of the human story, from when and where humanity got its ...

And her fossils are still yielding new insights Emily Driehaus 50 years after her discovery, Lucy, reconstructed here by artist John Gurche, remains an icon in paleoanthropology and pop culture as ...