Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

And, most of all, we know that 38-year-old evolutionary biomechanics researcher Dr. Karl Bates would absolutely wreck an Australopithecus afarensis in a 100-meter race, no question.

A reconstruction of the famous Austrolopithecus afarensis Lucy. Which hominin made the bone tools at Olduvai Gorge remains a ...

Scans of eight fossilized adult and infant Australopithecus afarensis skulls reveal a prolonged period of brain growth during development that may have set the stage for extended childhood learning in ...

To get a picture of how Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, moved, scientists compare fossils to the bones of modern humans, as well as to the anatomy of "knuckle-walking" primates like ...

It seems that Australopithecus afarensis-- the early hominin species to which Lucy belonged -- was not well-adapted for running. Using the shape of Lucy’s bones and data on the muscular ...

This species includes "Lucy," the 3.2 million year old fossil found by Donald Johanson. A. afarensis' small braincases and relatively large teeth and chewing muscles are similar to those of ...

The hyperrealistic artistic reconstruction of the female Austrolopithecus afarensis (Lucy), based on finds from Hadar, Ethiopia, in the National Museum of Prague in Prague, is pictured.( ...