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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.
Lucy 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.
While there are now fossil hominins twice as old as Lucy, she remains a paleoanthropological rock star. Made up of 47 bones from the same individual, she was the oldest known and the most...
Lucy, 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.
The 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy is the most famous fossil in the world.
Australopithecus 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?
For example, Lucy’s fossils confirmed that hominins were bipedal (could walk on two legs) before the development of large brains. “Lucy provided evidence that the transition to bipedalism happened early in our evolution, and that hominins were fully bipedal over 3 million years ago,” says Dr. Emma Finestone, Associate Curator and the ...
Lucy is arguably the most famous of all early human individuals due to her age and relative completeness. Partial skeletons like hers allow us to learn much more about early human body size, shape, and locomotion than more fragmentary and sparse remains.
When Lucy was discovered 50 years ago, she was the oldest, most complete early member of the human family that had ever been found, with 47 bones representing 40 percent of the skeleton....
It turned out that Lucy is 3.18 million years old and comprises about 40% of a single skeleton — still the most complete adult Australopithecus afarensis species skeleton. The fossil is popularly known as Lucy, named after the Beatles song “Lucy and the Sky with Diamonds,” which was playing in camp that night of the discovery.