When a partial fossil foot emerged from Ethiopia’s ancient sediments, it carried a quiet but profound implication: Lucy, the ...

Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...

A small cluster of fossilized bones from Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most enduring debates, suggesting that Lucy’s species was not the only upright walker on the African landscape ...

A jumble of bones and teeth confirms two species of human ancestor lived side by side over 3.3 million years ago in ...

Foot bones and other fossils have been attributed to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a recently discovered species that may shake up the human family tree.

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...

Researchers announced their findings in 2012, but while they knew the bones didn’t belong to the hominin species A. afarensis ...

No tip-toeing around it, this foot bone could change the story of human evolution, or at least the story of human foot evolution. The bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, an ...

WASHINGTON -- Lucy's feet were made for walking. That's the word from a team of researchers who got a first look at a foot bone from this human relative who lived 3 million or more years ago and ...