Lucy’s tree-climbing activities can be read in her bones, according to a new study that used computed tomography scans of her skeletal remains to learn more about her ancient behavior. The human ...

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers looked at the internal bone structure of the most famous Australopithecus afarensis to know how the hominid lived. Bone scans revealed ...

No tip-toeing around it, this foot bone could change the story of human evolution, or at least the story of human foot evolution. The bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, an ...

AUSTIN -- Lucy probably never left Africa's Rift Valley when she lived 3.2 million years ago. But if a group of Texans get their way, the skeleton of what may be humanity's earliest known ancestor ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — One of the world’s leading paleontologists denounced Ethiopia’s decision to send the Lucy skeleton on a six-year tour of the United States, warning Friday that the 3.2 ...

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WASHINGTON -- Lucy's feet were made for walking. That's the word from a team of researchers who got a first look at a foot bone from this human relative who lived 3 million or more years ago and ...