"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 ...

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

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.

A fossilised skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, best known by her nickname 'Lucy', was ... provides the first direct evidence of whether Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor ...

The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...

"Lucy's skeletal remains will be displayed in Europe for the first time ever," Prime Minister ... at Prague's National Museum as part of a "Human Origins and Fossils" exhibition for two months ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18-million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time in Prague this year, the Czech premier said on Tuesday.