A representative model of the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of Lucy, on display in Ethiopia. Credit: AFP/Getty Images Lucy, a famous early human ancestor that lived about 3.2 million years ago ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...

They added Lucy's skeleton and then added muscular features ... adaptation along with muscle fiber evolution likely allowed ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Because her skeleton was so complete, Lucy gave us an unprecedented picture of her kind. In 1974, Lucy showed that human ancestors were up and walking around long before the earliest stone tools ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans and determined that ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from ...

Unfortunately, Swartkrans has over the years yielded many fewer bones from the rest of the Paranthropus robustus skeleton ... early human species, including those represented by the famous ‘Lucy ...

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.

His legs were relatively long in proportion to his body compared to earlier hominids like Lucy. With his tall ... more like a modern human baby. This in turn suggests that his species must ...

Unfortunately, Swartkrans has over the years yielded many fewer bones from the rest of the Paranthropus robustus skeleton ... early human species, including those represented by the famous 'Lucy ...