Lucy, a fossilized skeleton ... she was the oldest known and the most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor when she was found. CNN spoke to Johanson, 81, founding director of the Institute ...

When Lucy was discovered 50 years ago, she was the oldest, most complete early member of the human family that had ever been found, with 47 bones representing 40 percent of the skeleton.

Dated to 3.2 million years ago, Lucy was the oldest and most complete human ancestor ever found at the time of ... when scientists reconstructed her skeleton in Cleveland, Ohio.

In a cave in northern Spain, researchers have discovered pieces of a fossilized face belonging to an ancient human ancestor — the oldest human fossil ever found in Western Europe. The remains ...