• Global Footprint Day

    Join with others in a global experiment, and learn how to estimate an individual's height using just their footprints. Visit eAnthro Labs to learn more.

  • New hominin species

    The newly discovered Australopithecus sediba lived in South Africa between 1.75 and 1.95 million years ago. Read the article. Photo by Brett Eloff.

  • New talk about an old fossil

    Read about "Ardi". Ardipithecus ramidus, discovered in 1994, may be one of the oldest known hominins in the family tree. Image by T. Michael Keesey.

Explore Lucy

Learn more about one of the most famous fossils ever found: the 3.2 million year old fossil of "Lucy", a nearly complete fossilized skeleton from the species Australopithecus afarensis.  View more of her morphology in the Bone Viewer, or visit eLucy to compare her anatomy with that of a modern human and a modern chimpanzee.