Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

Researchers believe they have solved one of the biggest puzzles in anthropology — whether Lucy, one of our famous ancestors, who existed 3.2 million years ago, lived in the trees or on the ground.

Headlines around the world hailed the fossils as "Lucy's Child" and "Lucy's Daughter" when anthropologists first reported finding the skull and bones of a 3-year-old girl who lived and died more than ...

Professor Matt Sponheimer reflects in A&S Magazine on the enduring significance of "Lucy," the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil discovered in Ethiopia. Half a century after her ...

Archaeologists have finally put a face, a gait, and even a habitat to the mysterious fossil foot that has puzzled specialists for years, revealing that Lucy’s landscape was shared with another upright ...