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, ...

Lucy, our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor of the species Australopithecus afarensis, may not have won gold in the Olympics – ...

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

Lucy's species walked upright but lacked modern running abilities, revealing key evolutionary adaptations in humans.

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

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

The anatomist Raymond Dart saw the "child of Taung" as the missing link in the history of human development. But at first it ...

including Lucy’s, belonged to a previously unknown hominin species, Australopithecus afarensis, or the Southern Ape from Afar. For breaking news and live news updates, like us on Facebook or ...

NASA’s Lucy is a record-breaking mission that will study a record-breaking 11 asteroids across the Solar System. Three of them are already under its belt; it passed close to asteroid Dinkinesh ...

PBS fan favorite Lucy Worsley delves into a late 19th Century rabbit-hole for her new show Holmes vs. Doyle. This fascinating three-part series sees the popular British historian on a sleuthing ...