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

The hominin Lucy, found back in the 1970s, in Ethiopia, has over time become the most famous of all the ancient hominins, both because of the good condition of her skeleton, and because of what ...

By Franz Lidz More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging ... is considered the most complete hominin fossil found to date, died ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

First hominin muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old 'Lucy' could stand as erect as we do Jun 13, 2023 NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter ...

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 ...

The 3.2-million-year-old set of bones, discovered in 1974, was once considered as belonging to the earliest known member of ...

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The only known hominid fossils of that age in that location are those of Lucy and her kind, the small-brained but upright-walking hominids classified as Australopithecus afarensis. Some analysts ...