A representative model of the 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of Lucy, on display in Ethiopia. Credit: AFP/Getty Images ...

Lucy’s skeleton differs from humans because she had shorter legs and a more platelike pelvis (when viewed from the top down). Wiseman’s model showed that while a modern human’s thigh was ...

Next, she used recently published open source virtual models of the Lucy fossil to put her skeleton back together, showing how each joint could move and rotate. Finally, ...

A news bulletin from 3.2 million years ago (or so): Lucy, humanity’s famous ancestor, may have died not from old age but from a long fall out of a tree. She flung out her arms to try to break… ...

A 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton discovered and analyzed by a team of Northeast Ohio researchers is an important find that shows human ancestors were walking and running as well as we do ...

An exhibit featuring the 3.2 million year old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton called Lucy and an artist's life-sized model, right, are displayed during a press preview at the Houston Museum of ...

The real “Lucy” skeleton, the famous 3.2-million-year-old specimen of Australopithecus afarensis, resides within a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa..

A complete model of Lucy stands near the actual remains. ... In 2000, Alemseged himself discovered a skeleton older than Lucy, another Australopithecus afarensis about 3.3 million years old.

Lucy, a famous early human ancestor that lived about 3.2 million years ago, may have died after falling from a tree, her bones and organs smashing into the savannah of present-day Ethiopia, a new ...

Lucy’s skeleton differs from humans because she had shorter legs and a more platelike pelvis (when viewed from the top down). Wiseman’s model showed that while a modern human’s thigh was ...