In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers looked at the internal bone structure of the most famous Australopithecus ... swung in trees and she did this regularly.

Perhaps the world's most famous early human ancestor, the 3.2-million-year-old ape "Lucy" was the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton ever found, though her remains are only about 40 percent ...

Ultimately she is a hominid, a family that contains existing species like chimpanzees and humans. What does the Latin name mean? Australopithecus means “southern ape”. Afarensis means “from ...