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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

named for the paleoanthropologist who discovered the Lucy fossil. Lucy will then go on to study six diverse and scientifically important Trojans -- Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, Orus, and the ...

The world is on a path to get 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 Fahrenheit) warmer than it is now, but could trim half a degree of ...

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