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 ...

AUSTIN -- Lucy probably never left Africa's Rift Valley when she lived 3.2 million years ago. But if a group of Texans get their way, the skeleton of what may be humanity's earliest known ancestor ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — One of the world’s leading paleontologists denounced Ethiopia’s decision to send the Lucy skeleton on a six-year tour of the United States, warning Friday that the 3.2 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have finally put a face, a gait, and even a habitat to the mysterious fossil foot that has puzzled specialists for years, revealing that Lucy’s landscape was shared with another upright ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how ...

The bone belongs to a cohort of the famed hominid Lucy, whose species Australopithecus afarensis roamed eastern Africa, and is the first evidence to address the question of how they got around, said a ...

No one knows how her body found its way into the stream or how long her parents may have searched the shallows for the missing 3-year-old. The child’s fossilized skeleton -- a tiny skull, a jaw with ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.