Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mysterious fossilized foot found years ago in Ethiopia belongs to a controversial and enigmatic human relative that lived at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a half century, the iconic "Lucy" fossil species, Australopithecus afarensis, has held the title of being the most likely ...

Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominid whose remains were discovered in Ethiopia on this day 41 years ago, is being celebrated in the form of a Google Doodle. She comes from the Australopithecus ...

A Cambridge University researcher has digitally reconstructed the missing soft tissue of an early human ancestor—or hominin—for the first time, revealing a capability to stand as erect as we do today.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...

To recap: More than 40 years ago, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson found Lucy's remains in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The partial skeleton — the most complete member of Australopithecus afarensis ...

Donald Johanson really had no business going bone hunting that Sunday. There were letters to write and fossils to catalog—heaps of paperwork left undone while fellow paleoanthropologists were visiting ...

She’s the most famous of our distant ancestral kin and, while it’s way too late to send flowers, we now know how Lucy died some 3.18 million years ago. The most famous Australopithecus afarensis ...

April 1 (UPI) --The early hominin Australopithecus afarensis-- known to many as Lucy -- walked upright and boasted a brain 20 percent bigger than a chimp's. Some scientists estimate Lucy used simple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominid whose remains were discovered in Ethiopia on this day 41 years ago, is being celebrated in ...

Digital modelling of legendary fossil's soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling, but knee muscles that allowed fully erect walking.