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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 ...
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.
At the time it fit with the scientific community's perception of the missing link's large brain with apelike characteristics, it took 40 years to uncover that Piltdown Man was a forgery. [3] In 1974, scientists in Ethiopia, Africa, discover a skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) from around 3.2 million years ago. Lucy's ancestors had ...
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.
The discovery pushed back evidence of the human genus, Homo, to 2.8 million years, [10] ago, nearly a half-million years earlier than previously known. [ 9 ] Ongoing IHO field work in Hadar, Ethiopia , where Lucy was found in 1974, addresses the evolution and ecology of Australopithecus (3.0–3.4 million years ago) and the origin of Homo and ...
A "baby" planet that astronomers recently observed some 430 light-years from Earth may be the youngest planet ever discovered. Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet may seem old to us.
Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found. The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of ...
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 million years ago). Discovery