Lucy’s skeleton differs from humans because she had shorter legs and a more platelike pelvis (when viewed from the top down). Wiseman’s model showed that while a modern human’s thigh was ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil "Lucy" at Addis Ababa's National Museum, Ethiopia, on May 7, 2013. The skeleton was discovered by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson on November 24, 1974.

Bates and his colleagues created a 3D digital model of the ‘Lucy’ skeleton – a near-complete 3.2-million-year-old A. afarensis specimen discovered in Ethiopia half a century ago.

Bates and his colleagues created a 3D digital model of the ‘Lucy’ skeleton — a near-complete 3.2-million-year-old A. afarensis specimen discovered in Ethiopia half a century ago.

It's a skeleton that is more complete than Lucy and lived 150,000 years before Lucy, a child that died at the age of 2 1/2. And because of her antiquity and her completeness, ...

Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ago this month, transformed scientists’ understanding of human evolution. The discovery by American paleontologist Don Johanson and graduate ...

Lucy's skeleton, along with subsequent discoveries of other fossils of her species, have given anthropologists a wealth of information about what is essentially the halfway point in human evolution.

Matt Sponheimer, a CU Boulder professor of anthropology, notes that the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy is "instantly recognizable in a world awash in fossils." Officially labeled ...

The researchers compared Lucy’s performances with those of a digital model of a modern human whose measurements echoed those of the 5-foot-9, 154-pound Dr. Bates, who is 38. Video ...

The 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy is the most famous fossil in the world. Dave Einsel/Getty Images.

Arizona State Professor Donald Johanson discovered the Lucy fossil skeleton—dated at over 3 million years old—in Ethiopia 50 years ago. Tucson (Sierra Vista) KOLD.