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Scientists Find Bones of Another Pre-Human Walker

Kevin Spak — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:16:16 CDT

Lucy was not alone. Scientists have unearthed fossilized bones that they believe must have belonged to the foot of another pre-human species that walked upright around 3 million years ago, the AP reports. It's the first evidence of such a species during that era since the one made famous by...

Ape With a Knife Changes Human History

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:03:00 CDT

It turns out that human ape Australopithecus afarensis Lucy likely used some kind of stone knife to eat meat 800,000 years earlier than previously thought, which has suddenly cast human history in a new light. The discovery of fossil animal bones showing evidence of being butchered 3.4 million...

Fossil Find Shakes Up Evolution Timeline

Harry Kimball — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:51:07 CDT

A primate fossil found in Africa in 1994 predates the famous “Lucy” skeleton by 1 million years and offers clues to human evolution, researchers say. “This is huge,” a paleoanthropologist tells the Washington Post . “This is the biggest discovery really since” Lucy. The researchers believe “Ardi”— Ardipithecus ramidus —lived in...

New Georgian Fossils May Link 'Lucy' and Homo Erectus

Nick McMaster — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:57:12 CDT

Archaeologists have unearthed four fossilized skeletons of a human ancestor that shares characteristics with the humanesque Homo erectus and the earlier, smaller Australopithicus afarensis, of which the famous 'Lucy' skeleton is a member. The fossils in the republic of Georgia contradict the previously held idea that hominids developed all key...

Lucy Debuts in Houston

Caroline Zimmerman — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:20:00 CDT

Lucy kicks off her public debut at the Houston Museum of Natural Science tomorrow amid controversy that the world's favorite human ancestor should never have left her home in Ethiopia. The public wants the chance to the 3.2 million-year-old remains, but scientists say Lucy's too fragile to travel.