Lucy, an early human ancestor who walked upright on two legs—a milestone in human evolution—had speed and energy efficiency ...

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Bates and his colleagues created a 3D digital model of the ‘Lucy’ skeleton — a near-complete 3.2-million-year-old A. afarensis specimen discovered in Ethiopia half a century ago. They used ...

A new study has shed light on the running abilities of Australopithecus afarensis, our 3.2-million-year-old ancestor famously represented by the fossil specimen "Lucy." Despite being bipedal, Lucy’s ...

The 52 bone fragments, amounting to some 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton, was, at the time, the most complete ever found, and revolutionised the understanding of our ancestors. The skeleton was ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

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Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and Human ancestor Lucy still has secrets 50 years after discovery | National | ktbs.com Skip ...

The scans of Lucy's arm bones showed they were heavily ... but had wondered about whether it still spent time in trees like its ancestors. Chimpanzees, the closest living relative of humans ...