World Aug 15 Ethiopian fossil Lucy leaves for her first exhibition in Europe By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane, Associated Press
Science Oct 16 NASA’s asteroid hunter Lucy soars into sky with diamonds A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight asteroids. Seven of the mysterious space rocks are among swarms of asteroids sharing Jupiter’s orbit, thought to be the pristine… By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Jan 05 New NASA missions to study ‘fossils’ of the solar system Jupiter's Trojan asteroids are thought to be remnants of the material that formed the solar system's more distant planets. NASA plans to visit them in one of two upcoming missions. By Michael Rios
Science Nov 30 Lucy, our famous ancestor, was built for tree-dwelling Bone scans of Lucy, our ever popular human ancestor, suggest early hominins may have spent millions of years “monkeying around” in trees. By Kristin Hugo
Science Aug 29 X-rays suggest ironic end for famous human ancestor Lucy The "Lucy" skeleton has reshaped our understanding of human evolution, but no one has ever been able to explain how she died -- until now. By Courtney Norris
May 28 Video: Human ancestor ‘Lucy’ may have had a neighbor, new fossils suggest By Nsikan Akpan Archaeologists uncover a new species of hominid near where and when human ancestor Lucy lived. Continue reading
Mar 04 This jawbone may change everything we know about early human history By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Human evolution had a nice clear line from Lucy 3.2 million years ago to Homo habilis to Homo erectus and finally Homo sapiens -- us. Or so it seemed. A new jawbone shows that humans evolved earlier than we thought,… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Fossil Find Sheds Light on ‘Early Evolutionary Steps’ A 4.4-million year old fossil, discovered in Africa has opened a window onto humans' "early evolutionary steps," according to the group of scientists responsible for the find. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching