Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that ...

While there are now fossil hominins twice as old as Lucy, she remains a paleoanthropological rock star ... didn’t know how much it would become an icon in the study of human origins.

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that they found in fossil form. This early rendering of these fossils could relate ...