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 ...

Kenya's Homa peninsula is home to various artefacts representative of early humanity - including the famous remains of Lucy - a half-ape-half-human. In November 1974, the skeleton of a small ...

"Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in ... indicate that she probably had a rather large belly, like a modern ape, reflecting an adaptation to a relatively low-quality, high-bulk diet.

The ape-like human ancestor Australopithecus—perhaps best known from the iconic fossil ‘Lucy’—might not have had much meat on its menu. After examining more than 3.3-million-year-old remains from ...

In some ways Lucy was very ape-like: she had a chimp-sized brain and long arms that suggest she spent a lot of time in trees. But she also walked on two legs, like modern humans. Receive a weekly ...

"Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in ... indicate that she probably had a rather large belly, like a modern ape, reflecting an adaptation to a relatively low-quality, high-bulk diet.