A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most consequential questions: how many species of early hominins walked the Earth at the ...

When a partial fossil foot emerged from Ethiopia’s ancient sediments, it carried a quiet but profound implication: Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, may not have walked her ...

Australopithecus afarensis© "Australopithecus afarensis" by Rod Waddington is licensed under BY-SA 2.0. Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You've got eons of undocumented progress, ...

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Some 3.3 million years ago, a three-year-old girl died in present day Ethiopia, in an area called Dikika. Dubbed "Lucy's Baby", she provides researchers with a unique account of our past. Her ...