Lucy's bones were discovered in 1974 in the Afar region of Ethiopia, near the town of Hadar. The skeletal remains, belonging to the species Australopithecus afarensis, were found by a team of paleoanthropologists led by Donald Johanson. This significant find provided crucial insights into human evolution, as Lucy is one of the oldest and most complete hominid fossils ever unearthed.
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