Lucy

On November 24th, 1974, a group of paleontologists led by Dr. Donald Johanson discovered a partial skeleton approximately 3.5 million years old in the Afar region of Ethiopia. Johanson, along with colleague Tom Gray had been focusing their interests on another part of the Afar area, when Johanson decided to move in a different direction and hoped to get lucky. Johanson discovered portions of an arm bone and quickly declared it as a hominid. As they searched more, Johanson and Gray found a jaw bone, thigh bones, ribs, and vertebrae. After about 3 weeks Gray and Johanson concluded that about 40 percent of the skeleton was recovered. This would prove to be a groundbreaking step for paleontology.
For the record the correct identification for this discovery was AL-288-1 (Afar Locality #288), but was later renamed "Lucy." It was named Lucy after the Beatles song "Lucy in the sky with diamonds", which Johanson was listening to when he discovered the first bone. When he first......

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