Sentences with phrase «afarensis discovered»

In 2008, anthropologist John Kappelman and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin scanned the partial skeleton of Lucy, the famous 3.18 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis discovered in 1974.

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First of all, when Johanson and Tom Gray discovered Lucy in 1974, it prompted a decades long search for more information about her species, Australopithecus afarensis, that continues to this day and since then our researchers have unearthed an enormous amount of information about who Lucy was, who her species was, where it lived, how it behaved; and so that's one aspect of Lucy's legacy.

Researchers have long wondered if other upright walking species shared the Rift Valley of Africa with Lucy, particularly after they discovered that several types of hominins were alive at the same time after A. afarensis disappeared 3 million years ago.

Since Lucy was discovered in Ethiopia's Afar region in 1974, researchers have uncovered many more fossils assigned to her species, Australopithecus afarensis, and dated to between 3.7 million and 3.0 million years ago.

On November 24, 1974, fossils of one of the oldest known human ancestors, an Australopithecus afarensis specimen nicknamed «Lucy,» were discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia.

The most famous fossil to be discovered from the Australopithecus afarensis species is a 3.2 million year - old partial skeleton named Lucy, a female hominin discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.