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Janis Carter and Lucy the chimp So much is now known about our similarities to other primates, it is easy to forget that, until relatively recently, we were still establishing exactly where we ...
In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...
8 Interesting Facts About Lucy the Ancient Ape Few australopithecines have shed light on human evolution quite like Lucy.
Lucy’s Legacy A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.
To create these simulations, Lucy’s skeleton was combined with muscular features seen in modern-day apes and added to existing software developed to demonstrate motion in animals.
Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.
The fossil, which dates to 3.2 million years ago and represents 40 percent of Lucy’s skeleton, is often described as having a mix of human and ape features.
Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the discovery of Lucy, a remarkably complete, 3.2-million-year-old human relative unearthed from the sandy soil in Hadar ...
Lucy the Elephant (Margate City, New Jersey) Shealy's Official Skunk Ape Headquarters (Ochopee, Florida) World's Largest Ball of Twine (Cawker City, Kansas) Carhenge (Alliance, Nebraska) ...
Lucy is popularly depicted as being hairy, but new evidence suggests she wasn't. The discovery prompts new questions about the history of nudity.
Visitors and residents at the Jersey Shore have known it for generations -- Lucy the Elephant is the best. While, now everyone around the country knows that the Margate, New Jersey, attraction ...