Researchers make a key discovery on "Lucy" (and it's about us)

Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis specimen, is often described as hairy. New evidence suggests, however, that it was not hairy. This discovery raises new questions about the history of nudity. Lucy: a window on our origins Discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia by a team led by Donald Johanson, [...]