More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Scientists Discover Remains of a Baby With a Nearly Complete Skull, It's 150,000 Years Older Than the Lucy Specimen ...

Archaeologists unearthed the tools in an area of Africa dubbed "the ... In November 1974, the skeleton of a small female was discovered and nicknamed Lucy. Lucy is part of the genus ...

Sharing characteristics of both Australopithecus africanus, a previously discovered hominin from South Africa, and chimpanzees, Lucy was assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis. Lucy's ...

Scientists have found evidence showing that modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ... other compressive fractures throughout Lucy's skeleton. Overall, Lucy suffered a broken ankle ...

On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues ... including the remains of "Lucy," an ancient human relative who lived more than 3 million years ago.

What does it take to bury an outdated argument? The thought occurred while reading Motherland, one of a series of recent ...

I remember the events of 2002 as if they happened yesterday. That was the year I nearly lost my life to Acquired ...

For this year’s festival opener in the Fine Arts Building’s Studebaker Theater, Plexus Polaire presents “Dracula: Lucy’s Dream ... with puppetry by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet ...