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 ...

A new study published in Current Biology provides insights into the running abilities of Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis whose discovery in 1974 has captivated scientists ...

Among them is Zeresenay Alemseged, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Chicago, who said Lucy is the earliest and most complete human ancestor fossil ever uncovered. The discovery ...

Lucy is part of the genus Australopithecus - a group of small-bodied and small-brained early ... human origins and even continues to shape evolutionary studies. "It allowed [the pre-human ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of ... New research provides the first ...

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New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed ... fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy, which was discovered in Ethiopia ...

So many of the oldest clues about humanity's earliest days have been preserved under the valley's fertile, human soil, including the remains of "Lucy," an ... (the pre-human ancestors) to access ...

Lucy, an early human ancestor who walked upright on two legs—a milestone in human evolution—had speed and energy efficiency limitations when it came to running. As reported by Live Science ...