Lucy is popularly depicted as being hairy, but new evidence suggests she wasn't. The discovery prompts new questions about the history of nudity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams in science, the human family tree. For decades, Lucy, the famous ...

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...

She was, for a while, the oldest known member of the human family. Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy in Ethiopia, the remarkable remains continue to yield theories and questions. In a ...

The world-famous pre-human fossil known as "Lucy" is going on display in Europe for the first time as part of a Prague exhibition on the evolution of humanity. The partial skeleton from Ethiopia is ...

Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside ...

FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy" is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus, file) ...

Lucy showed that members of the human family existed beyond three million years ago, and she also provided a template for fitting together later bone discoveries. The amount of information that can be ...

The National Museum of Prague already has hyperrealistic artistic reconstructions of human ancestors - Copyright AFP - The National Museum of Prague already has ...