A series of studies published in November 2025 in Nature magazine provided new data on an ancestral human species that lived in the same environment as Australopithecus afarensis, a species of which Lucy's iconic skeleton was part. The research was led by experts from Arizona State University (ASU), in the United States. The analysis focused on a fossil found in 2009 in the archaeological site of Woranso-Mille, in the Rift Valley of Afar, Ethiop…
A series of studies published in November 2025 in Nature magazine provided new data on an ancestral human species that lived in the same environment as Australopithecus afarensis, a species of which Lucy's iconic skeleton was part. The research was led by experts from Arizona State University (ASU), in the United States. The analysis focused on a fossil found in 2009 in the archaeological site of Woranso-Mille, in the Rift Valley of Afar, Ethiop…