"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 ...

By Franz Lidz More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus ...

Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...

The knee was much older than the earliest known stone tools. The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...

Discovered half a century ago in Ethiopia, the bones of Lucy, the most famous of the Australopithecus, are set to be ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation ... New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor ...