In pursuit of knowledge, the evolution of humanity ranks with the origins of life and the universe. And yet, except when an ...

Lucy's 3 million-year-old bones were found in 1974, ... 8 Interesting Facts About Lucy the Ancient Ape. Few australopithecines have shed light on human evolution quite like Lucy. By.

Lucy, formally known as A.L. 288-1, was about as tall as a kindergartner, with a body that blended features of apes and humans. Her Ethiopian name is Dinkinesh, which means “you are marvelous ...

Lucy and her kin were a group of hominins who inhabited East Africa some 2.9 to 3.9 million years ago. The pint-sized A. afarensis carried a mixture of ape-like and human-like features, hence the ...

Prior to Lucy’s discovery in 1974, palaeoanthropologists were aware of only one other member of this group – Australopithecus africanus (meaning “southern ape of Africa”) – which had ...

Lucy, formally known as A.L. 288-1, was about as tall as a kindergartner, with a body that blended features of apes and humans. Her Ethiopian name is Dinkinesh, ...

Lucy is popularly depicted as being hairy, but new evidence suggests she wasn't. The discovery prompts new questions about the history of nudity. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Our early human ancestor was capable of running, if slowly, a new study finds. By Franz Lidz More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still ...