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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 ...
Lucy", a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in Hadar The anthropologist Donald Johanson , a member of the 1973 expedition to Hadar, returned the next year and discovered the fossil hominin " Lucy " in the late fall of 1974. [ 6 ]
For a long time, A. afarensis was the oldest known African great ape until the 1994 description of the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus, [14] and a few earlier or contemporary taxa have been described since, including the 4-million-year-old A. anamensis in 1995, [15] the 3.5-million-year-old Kenyanthropus platyops in 2001, [16] the 6 ...
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.
2 Pliocene (5.3–2.58 million years old) 3 Pleistocene. Toggle Pleistocene subsection. 3.1 Lower Paleolithic: ... AL 288-1 (Lucy) 3.20 Australopithecus afarensis: 1974
Here we describe a well-preserved 3.3-million-year-old juvenile partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis discovered in the Dikika research area of Ethiopia. The skull of the approximately three-year-old presumed female shows that most features diagnostic of the species are evident even at this early stage of development.
Also displayed are full-sized casts of important fossils, including the 3.2-million-year-old Lucy skeleton and the 1.7-million-year-old Turkana Boy, and Homo erectus specimens including a cast of Peking Man. [2]
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.