The famous early human is still providing lessons to anthropologists about prehistoric Earth and its inhabitants ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins.

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...

The 3.2-million-year-old fossil, discovered 50 years ago, is considered to be one of the most significant early hominin ...

Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human made it to the fossil record. Despite much ...

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An analysis by Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany, on the manual capabilities of early hominins reveals that some Australopithecus species exhibited hand use similar to modern humans.

For Australopithecus sediba, which lived 1.95 million years ago in South Africa, we see "a relatively easy birth process", says study researcher Dr Natalie Laudicina. "The foetal head and shoulder ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Millions of years ago, Lucy revolutionized our understanding of human evolution. Now, discover how her contemporaries add ...