“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

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 ...

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

The archeological community has widely accepted the hypothesis that the early hominin species Australopithecus africanus (e.g. Mrs. Ples) descended from A. afarensis (e.g. Lucy). However, “[t]he ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

Lucy helped prove the theory that our early human relatives walked on two legs 3 million years ago - Cicero Moraes/Pen News ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

Taieb recognized the potential importance of the Hadar Formation, where remains of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis were found only a few years later. Lisa Winter became social media editor for ...

In 1974, the valley produced the most complete set of remains of a hominid skeleton, Australopithecus afarensis, nicknamed ‘Lucy’, dating back 3.2 million years. Afarensis has since been proved to be ...

A 3D polygonal model, guided by imaging scan data and muscle scarring, reconstructing the lower limb muscles of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, known as ‘Lucy’.

Lucy and other members of her species, Australopithecus afarensis, lived between 3.9 and 3.0 million years ago. They are believed to be the most ancient common ancestor, or "stem" species ...