We don’t know why they ran, but thanks to new analysis of Lucy, the name for the collection of 3.2-million-year-old ...

Australopithecus afarensis fossils are typically found in areas that were primarily woodlands with patches of grassland. Built for short distances, Lucy would have relied on strategies other than ...

Discovered half a century ago in Ethiopia, the bones of Lucy, the most famous of the Australopithecus, are set to be ...

The remains will be presented alongside Selam, the fossil of a baby Australopithecus who was about 100,000 years older than Lucy and found in the same place 25 years later. "This historic ...

Australopithecus appeared and evolved before ... Other changes to the skull help in chewing challenging pieces of food. Lucy was the name given to one of the very first unearthed hominin fossils.

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

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

We don’t know why they ran, but thanks to new analysis of Lucy, the name for the collection of 3.2-million-year-old australopithecine bones first found in Ethiopia in 1974, we now know how they ran.

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 Tuesday.