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.

Next, she used recently published open source virtual models of the Lucy fossil to put her skeleton back together, showing how each joint could move and rotate. Finally, ...

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, ...

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.

The real “Lucy” skeleton, the famous 3.2-million-year-old specimen of Australopithecus afarensis, resides within a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa..

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 ...

A 3D polygonal model, guided by imaging scan data and muscle scarring, reconstructing the lower limb muscles of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, known as ‘Lucy’.

(CNN) — When the remains of an early human ancestor were found in Ethiopia in 1974, the discovery provided an unprecedented look at a species that lived millions of years before humans walked ...