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  2. Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia

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    Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...

  3. Lucy at 50: How the world’s most famous fossil was discovered

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    There are ancient geological strata there, layers that date back millions and millions of years. I was walking on sediment 3.2 million years in age searching for the fossilized remains of various ...

  4. Australopithecus afarensis - Wikipedia

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    Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would not take place until the 1970s.

  5. Donald Johanson - Wikipedia

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    Lucy was discovered in Hadar, ... Generally thought to be members of the species Australopithecus afarensis, the fossils are estimated to be about 3.2 million years old.

  6. Hadar, Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Lucy", a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil ... The first find there was a fossil knee joint estimated to date from 3.4 million years ago.

  7. Ape to Man - Wikipedia

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    In 1974, scientists in Ethiopia, Africa, discover a skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) from around 3.2 million years ago. Lucy's ancestors had existed in a forested environment for 50 million years, living mainly on fruit.

  8. Prehistoric Autopsy - Wikipedia

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    Lucy is an example of Australopithecus afarensis, a hominin in the genus Australopithecus that dates to 3.9 million years ago and went extinct about 2.9 million years ago. [8] This episode presents an attempt to reconstruct the way Australopithecus afarensis looked, based on available fossil evidence, especially those related to 3.2 million ...

  9. Selam (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia

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    Although she has often been nicknamed Lucy's baby, the specimen has been dated at 3.3 million years ago, approximately 100,000 years older than "Lucy" (dated to about 3.2 mya). Discovery [ edit ]