Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Many different ancient ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National Museum in Prague Hyper-realistic reconstructions of Australopithecus afarensis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fossilized jawbone, which was excavated from the same site as the Burtele foot, as it appeared before it was excavated from the ...

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 ...

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams in science, the human family tree. For decades, Lucy, the famous ...

A side-by-side comparison of the optimal maximal speed running gait of the Au. afarensis model with modern human-like tricep surae muscle architecture. Credit: Bates, Karl T. et al., 2025 Lucy is one ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...