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 afarensis, whose ...

In fact, as many as four other kinds of proto-humans roamed the continent ... bahrelghazali was the first indication that other hominins lived around Lucy's time, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, director ...

The first sign that there might be a different ... another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ...

I thought at first maybe it was a baboon," he ... a paleoanthropologist at the University of Chicago, who said Lucy is the earliest and most complete human ancestor fossil ever uncovered.

Lucy and other members of her species could walk well because their hip and knee joints were more like humans' than like chimps'. The very first fossils of this species -- found by ...

Research later found that Lucy would have had a mixture of ape-like and human-body features ... now as they would have been when they were first made. Plummer told CBS: "I think the Oldowan ...

Chimpanzee Lucy was raised as a human in a suburban family home where she was taught ... More from ABC We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and ...

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human evolution because she lived ... 8 human relatives that went extinct (and 1 that didn't) The very first australopithecine to be recognized as a ...

The most famous Australopithecus fossil is the one nicknamed Lucy The incorporation of meat ... New research provides the ...

home to the 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor fossil for which the spacecraft was named, the US space agency said in a statement. Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan ...