In fact, as many as four other kinds of proto-humans roamed the continent ... bahrelghazali was the first indication that other hominins lived around Lucy's time, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, director ...

"Key features in the human body plan evolved specifically for improved running performance." The new study is the first time researchers have directly estimated running ability in Lucy's species ...

Three million years of human evolution began with this face. Scientists put a face to a name in an epic way after digitally recreating the visage of Lucy, humanity’s most famous primate ancestor.

Lucy and other members of her species could walk well because their hip and knee joints were more like humans' than like chimps'. The very first fossils of this species -- found by ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

afarensis was a critical species in the story of human evolution ... can be seen in the fragments collected for the First Family and Lucy. The individuals who died at all three sites had similarly ...