Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HBO Max Lucy the Chimpanzee's story is an animal rights nightmare. As told in the new documentary Lucy the Human Chimp, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reconstructed skeleton of Lucy, found in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974, and Grace Latimer, then age 4, daughter of a research team ...

There’s some news about everyone’s favorite great-great-great-great-great-(etc.) aunt, Lucy. Also known as AL 288-1 and Dinkinesh, our shared ancestor (or rather, 40 percent of her skeleton) was ...

A device that in many documentaries is either stiff or profoundly unreal but under Alex Parkinson's direction -- and with Lorna Nickson Brown in the role of Janis Carter -- rings true. Go to Full ...

Lucy walked on her own two feet. Scientists weren’t expecting that. We take a look back at the discovery of ‘Australopithecus afarensis’ 50 years ago. Donald Johanson really had no business going bone ...

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...

Another day, another chimp doc: HBO Max’s Lucy the Human Chimp chronicles the story of a chimpanzee raised by a human couple as their “daughter,” and — here’s the twist — one woman’s Herculean attempt ...

Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often ...

Alex Parkinson's documentary is a first-person account of an extraordinary bond between a famous chimpanzee and the young caretaker who befriended her in the second half of her life. By Sheri Linden ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Scientists using sophisticated scanning technology on the fossil bones of the ancient human ancestor from Ethiopia dubbed "Lucy" have determined that she was adept at ...

In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a ...