Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, the National Museum, Lucy is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of a female of t

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Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, the National Museum, Lucy is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, at Hadar, a site in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

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Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Photo credit: © Gilad Flesch / Alamy / Afripics
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