Dr. Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modeled the leg and pelvis muscles of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis using scans of 'Lucy': the famous fossil specimen discovered in Ethiopia in the mid-1970s.

Named for the Beatles classic ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’, Lucy is one of the most complete examples to be unearthed of any type of Australopithecus – with 40% of her skeleton recovered.

“Australopithecus afarensis would have roamed areas of open wooded grassland as well as more dense forests in East Asia around three–four million years ago. “These reconstructions of Lucy ...

The rare fossil, representing 40% of a skeleton belonging to a female Australopithecus afarensis, was named “Lucy,” for the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” ...

With the help of 3D reconstruction of Lucy's leg muscles, a 3D digital re-creation showed how she would walk. Lucy the Australopithecus Afarensis was a Species Said to be an Early Relative of Homo ...

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.

Matt Sponheimer, a CU Boulder professor of anthropology, notes that the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy is "instantly recognizable in a world awash in fossils." Officially labeled ...

Lucy, our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of the species Australopithecus afarensis, may not have won gold in the Olympics – but new evidence suggests she was able to run upright. According to ...

Lucy was not the only Australopithecus. Even older than her, Ardipithecus - discovered in 1994 - blended apelike and humanlike characteristics.

Lucy, formally known as A.L. 288-1, ... A 2.5-million-year-old fossil of a hominin species called Australopithecus africanus had been discovered in South Africa.

Four million years ago, Australopithecus anamensis walked better than Lucy, and Abel, a contemporary of Lucy's, was less prognathic" – meaning that his lower jaw protruded less far out.

(CNN) — When the remains of an early human ancestor were found in Ethiopia in 1974, the discovery provided an unprecedented look at a species that lived millions of years before humans walked ...