Discovery Times Square Exposition™
Times Square, New York
June 24 - Oct. 25 2009
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Pacific Science Center
Seattle, WA
Oct. 4, 2008 to March 8, 2009

World Premiere - Houston Museum of Natural Science
Houston, TX
Aug. 31, 2007 – Sept. 1, 2008

After the world premiere of Lucy’s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Lucy made a brief stop at the High-resolution X-ray CT Facility at The University of Texas at Austin. John Kappelman, professor of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, led the scientific team that conducted the scan of Lucy.

"By examining the internal architecture of Lucy's bones, we can study how her skeleton supported her movement and posture, and compare that to modern humans and apes," Kappelman said. "Because Lucy is so complete, she is one of the few fossils that permit us to compare how she used her arms versus how she used her legs. These new data will allow us to examine the theory that she climbed about in the trees, as well as walked on two legs when she was on the ground."

Read more about the new research on the Lucy fossil, and see photos of the facility in which she was scanned – click here.