The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...

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 ...

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human evolution because she lived ... 8 human relatives that went extinct (and 1 that didn't) The very first australopithecine to be recognized as a ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor who walked upright on two ... The research represents the first rigorous attempt to determine the running speed of Australopithecus afarensis. Digital simulations ...

The first sign that there might be a different ... another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ...

Lucy and other members of her species could walk well because their hip and knee joints were more like humans' than like chimps'. The very first fossils of this species -- found by ...