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 ...

The discovery of her fossil skeleton 50 years ago transformed our understanding of human evolution. But it turns out her species, Australopithecus afarensis, wasn't alone. In fact, as many as four ...

afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy." Our ancestor "Lucy," a young adult Australopithecus afarensis, became world-famous half a century ago after Donald Johanson and colleagues discovered ...

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 ...

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...

afarensis (e.g. Lucy). However, “[t]he contemporaneity of the two species now suggests that a more complex family tree prevailed early in the human evolutionary process,” the study authors write.

Subsequent discoveries of Australopithecus afarensis and associated fauna appeared ... age of the site is determined by correlating the fossil animals found with those found at sites with known ...

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early ... Muscles and other soft tissues are not preserved in fossils, so we varied the muscle properties from chimpanzee-like to human-like ...

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’.

Muscles and other soft tissues are not preserved in fossils so we varied the muscle properties ... This means that it was probably not physiologically possible for Australopithecus afarensis to engage ...

Lucy and other members of her species, Australopithecus afarensis, lived between 3.9 ... Estimating the age of hominid fossils is usually a painstaking, two-part process, involving both "absolute ...

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 ...