Lucy, our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of the species Australopithecus afarensis, may not have won gold in the Olympics – ...

"Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in ... indicate that she probably had a rather large belly, like a modern ape, reflecting an adaptation to a relatively low-quality, high-bulk diet.

The current view that an ape named Lucy was among a species that gave rise to the first early humans may have to be reconsidered. The discovery is reported in the journal Nature. The skull was ...

Today, Lucy is an important touchstone in human evolution because she lived 3.2 million years ago, evolutionarily halfway between our ape ancestors and us. But Lucy is just one of many famous ...

The ancestor named 'Lucy' was shorter than modern-day humans - about 3.3 feet in height - and had an ape-like face. Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human ...

The discovery of Australopithecus afarensis, a human-like being with short legs and a small stature, left scientists ...

Turning their attention to the considerably older A. afarensis, however, they find that Lucy’s hands probably displayed a mash-up of ape-like and human traits, with certain characteristics ...

But Lucy and other fossil finds reveal that more than 3 million years ago, a relatively small-brained, ape-faced human ancestor walked steadily on two feet. To get a picture of how Lucy's species ...