See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...

Fifty years ago today, a groundbreaking discovery was unearthed in Ethiopia, the fossilized bones of a human ancestor, and you probably already know her name... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LUCY IN THE SKY ...

The world-famous pre-human fossil known as "Lucy" is going on display in Europe for the first time as part of a Prague exhibition on the evolution of humanity. The partial skeleton from Ethiopia is ...

Paleontologist Yves Coppens died on Wednesday at the age of 87. Coppens is known for his 1974 discovery of "Lucy," one of the oldest-known human ancestors. The 3.2 million-year-old bones provided ...

Donald Johanson really had no business going bone hunting that Sunday. There were letters to write and fossils to catalog—heaps of paperwork left undone while fellow paleoanthropologists were visiting ...

A Cambridge University researcher has digitally reconstructed the missing soft tissue of an early human ancestor—or hominin—for the first time, revealing a capability to stand as erect as we do today.

There’s some news about everyone’s favorite great-great-great-great-great-(etc.) aunt, Lucy. Also known as AL 288-1 and Dinkinesh, our shared ancestor (or rather, 40 percent of her skeleton) was ...

The world’s oldest rock star is coming to Houston. Starting Aug. 31, the 3.18 million-year-old hominid skeleton known as Lucy (so dubbed because researchers were blaring the Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pre-human fossil "Lucy" from Ethiopia is on display in Europe for the first time. The exhibition at the National Museum in ...

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery. Fifty ...

Yves Coppens, the paleontologist who discovered the 3.2 million-year-old remains of "Lucy," which changed our understanding of human evolution, died on Wednesday. He was 87 years old. "Yves Coppens ...