Discover the face of Lucy, the most famous ancestor of modern humans, through groundbreaking forensic facial reconstruction.

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

Three million years after she walked the Earth, the face of Lucy - one of humanity's most important ancestors - has been brought to life like never before. Thanks to a detailed di ...

Fossils unearthed in South Africa turn out to be of an extinct human cousin that used to stand upright and was vulnerable to ...

Central to discussions about hominin diversity in the mid-Pliocene of eastern Africa is whether or not certain fossils should be attributed to Australopithecus afarensis, instead of representing ...

including those represented by the famous ‘Lucy‘ (Australopithecus afarensis; about 3.2 million years old) and ‘Hobbit’ (Homo ...

While exploring his home country of Ethiopia, Alemseged and his team discovered “Selam,” a remarkably complete fossilized skeleton of a 3.3 million-year old Australopithecus afarensis child. Selam ...

Both Lucy and Selam—the fossil remains of a 3-year-old girl described by the Academy’s Zeray Alemseged in 2006—belong to the species Australopithecus afarensis, which lived 3 to 4 million years ago.