When palaeoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered a bone fragment at the Hadar fossil site in Ethiopia in 1974, he knew it was an extraordinary find, ... Australopithecus afarensis.

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 ...

Dr Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modelled 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.

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.

The lab, founded in the late 1980s by Ethiopia’s first paleoanthropologist, Berhane Asfaw, was set up to prevent the export ...

Australopithecus afarensis walked upright on two legs, making its fossils a favourite for researchers looking to unpick how bipedalism evolved in the human lineage.

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, ... in association with stone tools and cut-marked bones," Lüdecke ... of the species Australopithecus afarensis.

Computer models of her muscles and bones show that Lucy was not a natural runner. It seems that Australopithecus afarensis -- the early hominin species to which Lucy belonged -- was not well ...

Reconstruction of Lucy, the most famous skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis. MLouisphotography/Alamy. This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology.

Australopithecus afarensis looked like a mix between modern humans and other great apes. Imagine an individual who stands around 150 centimeters (just under 5 feet) tall, with a chimp-like face ...