New research uses 3D modeling to reconstruct Lucy's running style, revealing surprising insights into the evolution of human ...

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from ...

Recent research suggests Australopithecus afarensis was able to run upright at speeds of around 5 meters per second ...

D models of Australopithecus afarensis suggest the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners.

A new study published in Current Biology provides insights into the running abilities of Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

How about your ancient relatives? Thanks to fossil finds, scientists now know a lot more about our ancient human relative, Australopithecus sediba. The species was first discovered in 2008 in ...

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

A new exhibit on display at ASU peels back the curtain on humanity from more than three million years ago. The university is ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...