The bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient human ancestor who lived around 3 million years ago, spent most of its time walking, instead of climbing trees like chimps.

For almost a million years, A. afarensis lived throughout East Africa, and paleoanthropologists have found numerous fossils ...

Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected. The discovery is changing our understanding of ...

You may be more familiar with Au. anamensis’ younger relative, Australopithecus afarensis.The most celebrated Australopithecus, Lucy, discovered in 1974, was a member of this species. Au ...

New fossils from Kenya suggest that an early hominid species -- Australopithecus afarensis-- lived far eastward beyond the Great Rift Valley and much farther than previously thought.An ...

A sculptor's rendering of "Lucy," Australopithecus afarensis, at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on August 28, 2007. Dave Einsel / Getty Images About 3.2 million years ago, among the ...

One of the most famous fossils in human evolutionary history is known as "Lucy," who belonged to an extinct species called Australopithecus afarensis—an early relative of Homo sapiens who was ...

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 may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our evolutionary history.

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins. ... Australopithecus. afarensis (“Lucy”) AUSTRALOPITHECUS. GROUP. 4 . 5 ...

Studying fossils of Australopithecus afarensis can provide insight into the evolution of bipedalism, or walking upright, and when it emerged in early human ancestors.

She was assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis, and given the reference number A.L.288-1, which stands for “Afar locality 288,” the spot where she, the first hominin fossil, was ...