They’re reporting on new research published in the journal Current Biology, wherein physics simulations were conducted, based ...

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 ...

Given its dating and location, most researchers agree that the footprints were almost certainly left by Australopithecus afarensis, the same species as the famous skeleton known as “Lucy.” ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

Lucy's fragments will be shown at Prague's National Museum as part of a 'Human Origins And Fossils' exhibition for two months ...

This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil found by Donald Johanson. A. afarensis' small braincases and relatively large teeth and chewing muscles are similar to those of ...

The Czech prime minister announced on Tuesday that the skeleton remains of the Australopithecus will go on display in Prague next August.

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

Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...