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A new study published in Current Biology provides insights into the running abilities of Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis whose discovery in 1974 has captivated scientists ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools were made or brains got bigger, and subsequent fossil finds of much earlier bipedal ...

A new study suggests that Lucy, the ape-like human ancestor, died after a fatal fall more than 3 million years ago. Maria Gallucci was a Science Reporter at Mashable. She was previously the energy ...

Since Lucy is a shared ancestor for chimpanzees as well, we also morphed Australopith and modern human and chimpanzee skeletal material, using an analytical technique called geometric morphometrics.

Our ancestors didn't just stand up and start walking ... This evolutionary shift is evident in the 3.2-million-year-old hominid fossil named "Lucy." Without this subtle change, our walk would ...

Our ancestors still resembled apes nearly 4 millions years later. This includes Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia, from a group called the australopiths.

Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ancestor of humans ... the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modelling.