‘Lucy the Human Chimp’: Film Review. Alex Parkinson's documentary is a first-person account of an extraordinary bond between a famous chimpanzee and the young caretaker who befriended her in ...

About 3.2 million years ago, our ancestor "Lucy" roamed what is now Ethiopia. The discovery of her fossil skeleton 50 years ago transformed our understanding of human evolution.

Lucy, an early human ancestor who walked upright on two legs—a milestone in human evolution—had speed and energy efficiency ...

Lucy, a famous early human ancestor that lived about 3.2 million years ago, may have died after falling from a tree, her bones and organs smashing into the savannah of present-day Ethiopia, a new ...

Lucy was shorter than the average human, reaching about 3.3 feet (1 meter) in height, had an ape-like face and a brain about one-third the size of a human brain.

A 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton discovered and analyzed by a team of Northeast Ohio researchers is an important find that shows human ancestors were walking and running as well as we do ...

Early human 'Lucy' swung from the trees. By LiveScience. Published October 26, ... which opens Friday, Aug. 31, marks the first time Lucy has been displayed in public outside her native Ethiopia ...

When Lucy, the world’s most well-known fossil, was discovered sticking out of a shallow Ethiopian stream bed in 1974, she provided new insight about life for early human ancestors 3.18 million ...

Like Lucy, it walked upright, but had a grasping foot that it used to climb tree branches. Scientists said it's now clear that various human relatives experimented with upright walking.

"Lucy" is the first novel that Laurence Gonzales, probably best-known for his book "Deep Survival," has written in 25 years. And it's being acclaimed as a Crichton-like thriller. He joins us from ...

First discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia, the diminutive Lucy stood less than four feet tall, and she may have spent the night nesting in trees. A recent study in the journal Nature has suggested she ...

Lucy, a famous early human ancestor that lived about 3.2 million years ago, ... Lucy's fatal fall is likely the first scientific hypothesis pointing to how the ape-like hominid died, ...