Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans, had shorter legs and smaller calf muscles and Achilles tendons. She would ...

The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...

A new study suggests that “Lucy,” perhaps the world’s most famous early human ancestor, wasn’t able to run that fast. […] ...

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

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

With its remarkably large skulls, Homo juluensis is challenging our understanding of human evolution, suggesting a more ...

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

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.

In a study published in Current Biology, researchers have revealed that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient hominin species, exhibited a limited capacity for running. This small bipedal ancestor, ...

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

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

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