Looking far back into our prehistoric past, today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 41st anniversary of the discovery of what – or who – became known as Lucy the Australopithecus, a 3.2m-year-old human ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels over and draws its last breath. The carcass is soon set on by hyenas, who ...

A lower jaw, plus jaw fragments and teeth, dated at 3.3m to 3.5m years old, were found in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia four years ago. That shows a second human ancestor lived in about the ...

FILE - The framed hominid fossil "Lucy," is seen at a exhibition at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Les Neuhaus, file) ...

Lucy helped prove the theory that our early human relatives walked on two legs 3 million years ago - Cicero Moraes/Pen News The true face of the tiny primate “Lucy”, who proved that our early human ...

Roughly 2.6 million-year-old fossilized teeth found in Ethiopia might belong to a previously unknown early human relative, researchers say. The teeth are from a species of Australopithecus, the genus ...

Learn more about Ardipithecus ramidus and how their ankle bone paints a better picture of how our ancestors transitioned from walking like apes to walking up right.

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe for the first time in Prague this year, the Czech premier said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON – The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. Reconstructed ...

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