"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 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 ...

By Franz Lidz 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 ...

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 ...

In terms of human evolution, Lucy’s ability to walk on two legs suggested ... “This meant the long-standing argument about ‘did we stand up first and then get big brains so that we could ...

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

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.