Lucy's kind are now called Australopithecus afarensis, in honor of the Ethiopian region's Afar people, where she was discovered. Lucy's species probably wasn't a direct predecessor to modern ...

In the Afar desert of Ethiopia, there are a lot of ways to die ... short—is more than a million years older than the famous Lucy skeleton and much more informative about one of evolution's ...

This story appears in the January 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was like a scene conjured by a Hollywood special effects shop. In September 2005 Afar herders in northern Ethiopia ...

die het mogelijk maakten om de beroemde ‘Lucy’ mee te reconstrueren. The Lower Awash Valley paleo-anthropological site is located 300 km northeast of Addis Ababa, in the west of the Afar Depression.