Lucy was the name given to one of the very first ... This separated the hominins from the apes. Even so, scientists are still wondering about the advantages that bipedalism brought Australopithecus.

Researchers were able to recreate the running form of the famous hominin. Spoiler: she’s not winning any marathons.

Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Australopithecus possessed ape-like face proportions and a brain about ... The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy, which was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and is ...

according to a new study Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on ...

Understanding natural history presents a profound challenge. It involves trying to grasp the undocumented progress of countless millennia, such as the evolutionary journey of various species. One ...

Australopithecus possessed ape-like face proportions and a brain about ... The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy, which was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974 and is ...