NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

A new milestone in the exploration of outer space. NASA has shared images of the progress of one of its most important missions, managing to capture the movement of one of the aste ...

Can they run fast enough, and far enough? Our team's research modeled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus ...

Subsequent discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis and associated fauna appeared to corroborate this hypothesis. However, the ecological contexts of the earliest hominins suggest that the link ...

Three million years after she walked the Earth, the face of Lucy - one of humanity's most important ancestors - has been brought to life like never before. Thanks to a detailed di ...

Long before it reaches its destination, NASA's Lucy spacecraft delivers valuable data. Now it has passed a particularly unusually shaped asteroid.

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

Lucy and other members of her species, Australopithecus afarensis, lived between 3.9 and 3.0 million years ago. They are believed to be the most ancient common ancestor, or "stem" species ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...