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 ...

Scientists Discover Remains of a Baby With a Nearly Complete Skull, It's 150,000 Years Older Than the Lucy Specimen ...

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 ...

The Primate Perspective helps us recognize that ... species and enhance our long-term survival prospects. (Photo of Lucy reproduction at the Institute of Human Origins) Source: Guy P.

"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.

Lucy, formally known as A.L. 288-1 ... a fossil would be found of a human more apelike, or an ape more humanlike than had been found by anyone,” recalled Johanson, now a paleoanthropologist ...

"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.