Australopithecus afarensis was made famous by a skeleton known as Lucy, found 1974 in Ethiopia. Lucy proved that her species - one of our early human relatives - walked on two legs. Ancient fossils ...

Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected. The discovery is changing our understanding of ...

'Lucy' is a collection of fossilised bones that once made up the skeleton of a hominid from the Australopithecus afarensis species. She lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago.

This species is considered the direct ancestor of Australopithecus afarensis, the species best known from the famous partial skeleton nicknamed Lucy This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your ...

Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis is commemorated today in a Google Doodle that recalls a picture that she helped show had a big problem. The picture shows Lucy standing in the middle of a ...

E Au. afarensis In 1972 researchers traveled to the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia to look for hominin fossils dating to more than three million years ago.

To study brain growth and organization in the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis (famous for ‘Lucy’ and ‘Selam’ from Ethiopia’s Afar region) more than 3 million years ago, an international ...

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 ...

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there.

Australopithecus afarensis, the extinct species to which Lucy belongs, could probably straighten its knee joints, extend its hips and stand up straight like modern humans.

Researchers have digitally reconstructed the leg muscles of an ancient human ancestor that lived 3.2 million years ago, revealing they could stand and walk upright like modern humans.

In a study published in Current Biology, researchers have revealed that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient hominin species, exhibited a limited capacity for running. This small bipedal ancestor, ...