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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Lucy's discovery! On November 24, 1974, Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray were mapping an area of Hadar, Ethiopia when Johanson discovered a forearm bone fragment sticking out of the ground. Three weeks of excavation later, they had collected what would later be known as Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh, the most complete early human skeleton at the time. Curator of Anthropology, Dr. Dirk Van Tuerenhout tells the story of Lucy's discovery, h

Google celebrates the 41st anniversary of the discovery of early human ancestor 'Lucy', whose skeleton revealed how humans evolved from apes. | The Sydney Morning Herald

27 reactions | "Lucy” is the name of the nearly complete skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 1974 in the Hadar archaeological region in the Afar Triangle of #Ethiopia. | CGTN Africa | Facebook