"Key features in the human body plan evolved specifically for improved running performance." The new study is the first time researchers have directly estimated running ability in Lucy's species ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

The true face of the tiny primate “Lucy”, who proved that our early human relatives walked on two legs 3 million years ago, has been revealed.

The knee was much older than the earliest known stone tools. The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named ...

Lucy, of course, couldn’t answer those questions. But what came before her? For 20 years after her discovery, it was as if the earliest chapter of the human story were missing. One of the first ...

Digitally rendered composite foot of the "Ardi" partial skeleton. This image relates to an article in the Oct. 2, 2009, issue of Science. The study, by Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University ...

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 ...