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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...

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 ...