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

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

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.

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, ...

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

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 ...

A team of natural scientists, musculoskeletal specialists, and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several institutions ...

In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a ...

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