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fossilized skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis
AI overview
Lucy is a fossilized skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis, an early human ancestor that lived about 3.2 million years ago in Africa. She is significant because her well-preserved remains have provided scientists with crucial evidence about how our early ancestors walked upright and what they looked like before the evolution of the modern human brain.
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Key facts
- Catalog number span no
- AL 288-1
- Common name
- Lucy
- Species
- Australopithecus afarensis
- Age
- 3.2 million years
- Place discovered
- Hadar, Ethiopia
- Date discovered
- November 24, 1974 ; 51 years ago ( 1974-11-24 )
- Discovered by
- Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- female organism
- Collection
- National Museum of Ethiopia
- Image
- Reconstruction of the fossil skeleton of "Lucy" the Australopithecus afarensis.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lucy (Australopithecus)
- time of discovery or invention
- 1974-11-24
- discoverer or inventor
- Yves Coppens
- inventory number
- AL 288-1
- location of discovery
- Hadar
- individual of taxon
- Australopithecus afarensis cumio
- nickname
- Lucy
- date of birth
- 3200000-00
- date of death
- 3200000-00
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