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The fossil, however, will not go on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Paleoanthropologist Rick Potts, director of the museum's Human Origins Program, explains why:
Forty-two years ago, archaeologists in Ethiopia unearthed fossilized bones belonging to one of humanity’s earliest known ancestors to walk upright. Known as the “Lucy” skeleton, it reshaped our...
Creationist websites are not a source of information. You can read the paper which the news article is referring to, or at least its abstract, and see that none of the scientists involved are claiming that Lucy is a "hoax".
Lucy, arguably the world’s most famous early human fossil, is not quite all she seems. A careful look at the ancient hominin’s skeleton suggests one bone may actually belong to a baboon.
The “real” Lucy is stored in a specially constructed safe in the Paleoanthropology Laboratories of the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Because of the rare and fragile nature of many fossils, including hominids, molds are often made of the original fossils.
AL 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.
Researchers have discovered a nearly complete 3.8-million-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor in Ethiopia. An analysis of the new specimen challenges ideas about how the...
Now, a new controversy is swirling about how she died 3.2 million years ago. A provocative analysis of fractures riddling her bones suggests that she toppled from a tall tree and hit the ground so hard that she smashed many of her bones.
The veiled Lucy speaks to the complex relationships among nudity, covering, sex, and shame. But it also casts Lucy as a veiled virgin, a figure revered for sexual “purity.”
Donald Johanson holds a reconstructed skull of the species Australopithecus afarensis. When Johanson discovered the Lucy skeleton on Nov. 24, 1974, it was missing a complete skull. It would take 16 more years to get enough bones from another individual to complete a nearly full skull. Photo by Steve Filmer/ASU.