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 ...

If the characters on The Big Bang Theory could hear the lyrics of their theme song, they'd probably have some feedback about ...

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 ...

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 ...