A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa ...

A previously unknown species of Australopithecus have been discovered in Ethiopia’s Afar region, coexisting with early Homo over 2.6 million years ago—overturning long-standing assumptions about the ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

The new research could raise about the status of the famous Australopithecus afarensis skeleton 'Lucy' The newly discovered appendage clearly does not belong to Lucy's species because it has an ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative. Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in ...