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Bookmark or Share- Lucy (Australopithecus) - WikipediaAL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh ( Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit. 'you are marvellous'), is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.
- Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy's species - Natural History MuseumAustralopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early hominins thanks to an extraordinary skeleton known as Lucy. Find out what we've learned about this species and important fossils. How do we know that Lucy and her species walked upright? How do we know Lucy was female? How did she die?
- Lucy's Story | Institute of Human Origins - Arizona State UniversityLucy was found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray on November 24, 1974, at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia. They had taken a Land Rover out that day to map in another locality. After a long, hot morning of mapping and surveying for fossils, they decided to head back to the vehicle.
- 'Lucy' Discovered in Africa - National Geographic SocietyShe had powerful arms and long, curved toes that paleontologists think allowed her to climb trees as well as walk upright. On November 24, 1974, fossils of one of the oldest known human ancestors, an Australopithecus afarensis specimen nicknamed “Lucy,” were discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia.
- Lucy | Australopithecus afarensis, 3.2 Million Years, EthiopiaLucy, nickname for a remarkably complete (40 percent intact) hominin skeleton found by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson at at the fossil site Hadar in Ethiopia on Nov. 24, 1974, and dated to 3.2 million years ago.
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