(CN) — It’s unlikely her leg muscles were evolved enough to dance the Griddy, do a split, or run for extended periods, but new research out of Cambridge University suggests a 3.2 million-year-old ...

Researchers have digitally reconstructed the leg muscles of an ancient human ancestor that lived 3.2 million years ago, revealing they could stand and walk upright like modern humans.

We may only ever have 47 of the 207 bones that made up the skeleton of this 3.18 ... Lucy the ancient human walked fully upright, ... The resulting model shows how Lucy was capable of upright, ...

What those early apes didn’t have, however, was a foot suited for extended periods of walking upright. Their foot, so far as we can tell from the sparse human fossil record and our living ape ...

There’s some news about everyone’s favorite great-great-great-great-great-(etc.) aunt, Lucy. Also known as AL 288-1 and Dinkinesh, our shared ancestor (or rather, 40 percent of her skeleton ...

A 3.6 million-year-old partial skeleton discovered and analyzed by a team of Northeast Ohio researchers is an important find that shows human ancestors were walking and running as well as we do ...

A newfound male relative of the human ancestor "Lucy" supports the idea that walking upright evolved earlier than thought, a new study says. Lucy—a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton discovered in ...

March 28, 2012 — -- There's a reason our ancestors began walking on two legs instead of scampering around on all fours millions of years ago.Like us, they couldn't get by without lugging some ...

The real “Lucy” skeleton, the famous 3.2-million-year-old specimen of Australopithecus afarensis, resides within a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa..

Scientists have completed the first 3D virtual reconstruction of the ribcage of the most complete Neanderthal skeleton unearthed to date. Using CT scans of fossils from an approximately 60,000 ...

Researchers have digitally reconstructed the leg muscles of an ancient human ancestor that lived 3.2 million years ago, revealing they could stand and walk upright like modern humans.