In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers looked at the internal bone structure of the most famous Australopithecus afarensis to know how the hominid lived. Bone scans revealed ...

By studying her bones, in particular the structure of her knee and spine ... of Lucy's remains are dotted around the world. Australopithecus afarensis may have walked upright and looked somewhat ...

Researchers looked at her 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis bones to examine how their internal structure grew in response to the stresses of daily life and found that Lucy used her ...

Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis specimen, consists of 47 bones, constituting approximately 40% of a single skeleton. Discovered by American paleoanthropologist Donald ...

After the discovery of the arm on November 24, 1974, Mr Johanson and Mr Gray found pieces of a skull bone, femur ... is of the Australopithecus afarensis. They are thought of as an ancestor ...

the Australopithecus Afarensis known as Lucy. Lucy is comprised of several hundred fragments of fossilized bone which, when combined, make up the skeletal structure of about 40% of the female body ...

It seems that Australopithecus afarensis-- the early hominin ... Using the shape of Lucy’s bones and data on the muscular ...

The female Australopithecus afarensis bones are from the same species as an adult skeleton found in 1974 which was nicknamed "Lucy". Scientists are thrilled with the find, reported in the journal ...

The foot, for example, had a structure that allowed the kind ... An image of a model based on Lucy and other Australopithecus afarensis skeleton fossils found in East Africa in 1974.

Her brain was small, like a chimpanzee's, but her pelvis and leg bones (including a valgus knee) looked almost identical to modern humans, indicating that Australopithecus afarensis was fully ...

Digital modelling of legendary fossil's soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful ... type of Australopithecus-- with 40% of her skeleton recovered. Wiseman was able to use ...