Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.
"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 ...
Lucy's fragments will be shown at Prague's National Museum as part of a 'Human Origins And Fossils' exhibition for two months ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 3.18-million-year-old remains of Lucy, one of the oldest human ancestors, will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever.
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 ...
The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...
Research later found that Lucy would have had a mixture of ape-like and human-body features ... now as they would have been when they were first made. Plummer told CBS: "I think the Oldowan ...
Chimpanzee Lucy was raised as a human in a suburban family home where she was taught ... More from ABC We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and ...
The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...