The DuPage County Board honored Lucy Westlake as part of a proclamation for Women’s History Month. The board commemorated the ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

A former Fossil Ridge swimming star set a new school record for the storied Stanford program to win her first NCAA Division I ...

Learn more about how Paranthropus robustus lived 2 million years ago, an evolutionary cousin to humans.

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

afarensis fossil (AL 288-1), nicknamed "Lucy." Our ancestor "Lucy," a young adult Australopithecus afarensis, became world-famous half a century ago after Donald Johanson and colleagues discovered ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process ... The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space rock named Donaldjohanson, an object researchers ...

A 2.5-million-year-old fossil of a hominin species called Australopithecus africanus had been discovered in South Africa. Lucy’s discovery on Nov. 24, 1974, by paleoanthropologist Donald ...

It's been true since her high school days at Fossil Ridge and has continued all the way to this year's NCAA Division I women's swimming and diving championships. The Stanford junior set a new ...