"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 ...

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

In fact, as many as four other kinds of proto-humans roamed the continent ... bahrelghazali was the first indication that other hominins lived around Lucy's time, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, director ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...