It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, Ethiopia, on the morning of November 24, 1974. The two had initially set out ...

When Donald Johanson arrived in Ethiopia ... On that Sunday, Johanson was out surveying with graduate student Tom Gray. “We found fragments of various antelopes and a bit of a monkey and ...

When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it ...

Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, the fossil—nicknamed "Lucy"—represents a roughly 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor. Lucy is arguably one of the most famous and ...