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

South Africa’s initial claim to be humanity’s home goes back almost a hundred years. In 1924, anatomist Raymond Dart found a skull of a juvenile primate among a box of fossil-bearing rocks sent to him ...

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These new discovered dates by using a new dating method indicate that the fossils found at the Sterkfontein caves are not from near the end of the Australopithecine era but that they actually date ...

Easter Sunday certainly hasn't been a day of rest for the astronomy community. All eyes are on NASA's asteroid-studying Lucy spacecraft, which should have had a close space rock encounter at 1:51 p.m.

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Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies. When you purchase through links on our ...

Fossilised remains of 'Lucy', considered ancestor of the human species, was found 50 years ago Around 3.2 million years ago, in what is now present-day Ethiopia, a tiny human made it to the fossil ...

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only australopithecine species there. When you purchase through links on our ...

News analysisFifty years after this fossil's discovery, its place in the history of humankind is still debated, while, in the meantime, other hominin species have expanded our family tree. Fifty years ...

In December 1968, Raymonde Bonnefille explored the Mille region of Ethiopia, where the Lucy skeleton was discovered in 1974. R. BONNEFILLE Lucy was discovered half a century ago, on November 24, 1974, ...