"Lucy"
Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone fossils representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.
In Ethiopia, the assembly is also known as Dinkinesh, which means "you are marvelous" in the Amharic language.
Lucy was discovered in 1974 in Africa, near the village Hadar in the Awash Valley of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia, by paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson.
The Lucy specimen is an early tree-dwelling australopithecine and is dated to about 3.2 million years ago.
