Lucy (Amharic ድንቅáŠáˆ½ dinqneÅ¡, "you are wonderful") is the common name of AL 288-1, the remarkably near complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered on November 30, 1974 by the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE; director: Maurice Taieb, co-directors: Donald Johanson and Yves Coppens) in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago.