2007年9月4日 · "Lucy," the renowned fossil skeleton of one of the world's earliest known human ancestors, which was recovered in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974, recently began a six-year tour in the United...

AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit. 'you are marvellous'), is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.

2024年8月23日 · Today, ASU houses a replica skeleton of Lucy, along with a model of what she might have looked like when she roamed Earth. Donald Johanson putting “Lucy” bones together in the field. Historical photo of the research team in 1974.

Replica in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery of some of the footprints preserved at Laetoli, Tanzania, thought to be made by Australopithecus afarensis. The tracks show two individuals walked side by side and a third followed behind.

[Museum visitors to the Spitzer Hall of Human Origins admire the cast of Lucy on display—an exact replica of the original fossils arranged anatomically.] ASHLEY HAMMOND (ASSOCIATE CURATOR, DIVISION OF ANTHROPOLOGY): Here at the Museum, we’re lucky enough to have a cast of Lucy on display in the Hall of Human Origins.

See the reconstructed replica of Lucy's figure, here, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Use the arrows to explore the exhibit on Human Origins, or click here to learn...

2025年1月8日 · Lucy, nickname for a remarkably complete (40 percent intact) hominin skeleton found by American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson at at the fossil site Hadar in Ethiopia on Nov. 24, 1974, and dated to 3.2 million years ago.

2024年12月5日 · One of the biggest superstars in human history lies in the National Museum of Ethiopia. Here, in Addis Ababa, sit the fragile remains of the world’s most celebrated human ancestor: Lucy. Once, she was a hardy survivor in a harsh landscape. Now, her partial skeleton gets round-the-clock protection in a specially constructed safe.

Where is the "real" Lucy? IHO has replicas of Lucy‘s bones, which were produced in the Institute‘s casting and molding laboratories. The “real” Lucy is stored in a specially constructed safe in the Paleoanthropology Laboratories of the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2009年2月6日 · Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with the Ethiopian government, have completed the first high-resolution CT scan of the world’s most famous fossil, Lucy, an ancient human ancestor who lived 3.2 million years ago.