Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

A model of Lucy at the Museum of Natural History in Basel ... edges of clean breaks and sealing tiny slivers. But Lucy's skeleton showed no signs of healing, suggesting the fractures happened ...

Prague museum to host first European display of 3.18 million year old Lucy The bone fragments of ... The fossilised skeleton of the 1.1-metre-tall (3.6 feet), 29-kilogramme (64-pound) Lucy last ...

“Lucy” is the fossil skeleton that forever changed our understanding of where we came from. Fifty years after her discovery in Africa, scientists are still unraveling how Lucy and her species ...

Discovered in 1974 by Donald Johanson, Lucy is special because she lived so long ago (3.2 millions years) and because almost half of her skeleton was found. (Most fossil finds are just fragments ...

The most spectacular discovery came in 1974, when 52 fragments of a skeleton enabled the famous Lucy to be reconstructed ... it is necessary to hold the unearthed finds in the National Museum. The ...