Discover the face of Lucy, the most famous ancestor of modern humans, through groundbreaking forensic facial reconstruction.

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Three million years after she walked the Earth, the face of Lucy - one of humanity's most important ancestors - has been brought to life like never before. Thanks to a detailed di ...

Australopithecus afarensis is one of the best-known early ... my team reconstructed the complete skeleton of Lucy, using 3D modeling. Where parts were missing, we estimated these using scaled ...

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

Since Lucy is closely related to chimpanzees as well ... This means that it was probably not physiologically possible for Australopithecus afarensis to engage in persistence hunting, unlike later ...

The partially complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton Lucy, or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit."you are marvelous") is ...

Life-sized recreation of early human ancestor “Lucy,” Australopithecus afarensis, at The Neanderthal Museum in Germany. (© EdNurg – stock.adobe.com) Australopithecus walked upright, had human-like ...

Both Lucy and Selam—the fossil remains of a 3-year-old girl described by the Academy’s Zeray Alemseged in 2006—belong to the species Australopithecus afarensis, which lived 3 to 4 million years ago.

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 ...