“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” ...

Lucy helped change that. Today, the map of early human evolution is much more complicated, and Lucy is one of a panoply of ...

The following year Johanson's team discovered another fossil that is still a landmark in the story of human origins. "Lucy" -- named for the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which was ...

Scientists have successfully reconstructed the face of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, providing a ...

afarensis as "the ape that walked upright" makes it a celebrity species in the story of human evolution. Lucy's pelvis hints that she walked upright on two legs. When her crushed remains were ...

NASA's Lucy probe will zip past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing its science instruments on the space rock.

LOS ANGELES, April 20 (Xinhua) -- NASA announced that its Lucy spacecraft made a close encounter with a small main belt asteroid on Sunday. The spacecraft made the closest approach to the asteroid, ...

Two fossils named Ardi and Lucy provide evidence for human evolution. Both were found in Africa. Ardi is a female human-like fossilised skeleton that dates from 4.4 million years ago. Ardi's bones ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.