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

New research uses 3D modeling to reconstruct Lucy's running style, revealing surprising insights into the evolution of human ...

Sung by Barenaked Ladies, 'The Big Bang Theory' theme song is an absolute banger but there's a factual inaccuracy you didn't know about ...

Recent research suggests Australopithecus afarensis was able to run upright at speeds of around 5 meters per second ...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin ancestors could run well but topped out around 11 mph.

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

Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when he found ...

The study found that unlike other vertebrates where competition generally suppresses speciation after ecological niches are ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century.Dart was ...

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

In a study published in Current Biology, researchers have revealed that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient hominin species, exhibited a limited capacity for running. This small bipedal ancestor, ...