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

It can be precarious to hang such a pivotal argument on a single fossil individual. But in the half a century since Lucy’s ...

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 ...

The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which was ...

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 ...

Of all primates living today, only we humans walk fully upright. But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained, ape-faced human ancestor ...

“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 ...