Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw ...

As the oldest and most complete hominin skeleton at the time of her discovery, Lucy became the poster child for ...

They detail their own reconstruction of the Lucy fossil, bringing into relief their methods, the relationship between art and science, and decisions made to supplement gaps in scientific knowledge.

One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ...

More fossils were unearthed; a complete lower jaw, parts of a ribcage, pelvis and shin bones, ultimately resulting in a 40 per cent complete skeleton. Johanson’s find became known as Lucy ...

Vaccines delivered through a puff up the nose or into the mouth could be even more effective than shots at protecting people ...

British killer nurse Lucy Letby lost her bid Thursday to challenge her conviction for the attempted murder of a baby girl in ...

A spacecraft has launched from Cape Canaveral on a mission to uncover "the fossils" of the Solar System. The Lucy probe will head out to the orbit of Jupiter to study two groups of asteroids that ...

The oldest stone tools ever discovered were unearthed in Kenya by a group of scientists at the Lomekwi 3 site. The stone ...

Fossils for males and females often differ, particularly in a species like Lucy's that is sexually dimorphic: Males are much larger than their mates, and their fossils are marked by deeper muscle ...

“The Lucy fossil really transformed our understanding of human evolution, and that’s what we want to do is transform our understanding of solar system evolution by looking at all these ...