The University of Liverpool has led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the running capabilities of ...

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A new study published in Current Biology provides insights into the running abilities of Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old ...

A new study suggests that “Lucy,” perhaps the world’s most famous early human ancestor, wasn’t able to run that fast. […] ...

Raymond Dart, shown with the fossil, called the Taung Child, places it into a new genus: Australopithecus.

Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old ancestor of humans, had shorter legs and smaller calf muscles and Achilles tendons. She would have struggled to run fast.

The discovery of Lucy, or “Dinknesh” as the remains are locally known, changed not just Johanson’s career but it also shed new light on how humans evolved and changed over time, according to Johanson, ...

Strontium isotope analysis can be applied to animal and plant tissues to help determine their provenance. Here, the authors generate a strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa using data from 2266 ...

Karl Bates, Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology, convened experts from institutions across the UK and the Netherlands.