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 …

As in a modern human’s skeleton, Lucy's bones are rife with evidence clearly pointing to bipedality. Her distal femur shows several traits unique to bipedality. The shaft is angled relative to the condyles …

Nov 28, 2025 · 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, …

Lucy's skeleton consists of 47 out of 207 bones, including parts of the arms, legs, spine, ribs and pelvis, as well as the lower jaw and several other skull fragments.

"Lucy" is one of the most complete skeletons found to date from the early hominids that flourished between 4 and 2 million years ago. The skeleton consists of bones from a single individual, …

May 9, 2025 · Lucy, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, remains a cornerstone of human evolutionary studies. Her discovery illuminated the origins of bipedalism, reshaped the …

The partial skeleton known as Lucy was unearthed on November 24, 1974, in the Hadar region of Ethiopia’s Awash Valley. Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and his student Tom Gray made this …