Famed “Lucy” Fossils Discovered in Ethiopia, 40 Years Ago

By Evan Andrews Johanson poses with Lucy’s skull at an Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, museum on May 7, 2013. (Credit: Jenny Vaughan/AFP/Getty Images) While hunting for fossils in Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle on November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray stumbled upon the partial remains of a previously unknown species of ape-like hominid.

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