Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

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 ...

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 ...

When a small set of ancient foot bones turned up in Ethiopia years ago, the fossils raised more questions than answers. The pieces were odd enough to stand out from anything scientists had seen from ...

In 2009, scientists unearthed fossilized fragments of a 3.4-million-year-old foot in what’s now Ethiopia. They were found roughly 20 miles from where the famous Lucy skeleton was discovered in 1974.

(L)Haile-Selassie and his crew members in the field. (R) The Burtele Foot with its elements in the anatomical position.Stephanie Melillo, Mercyhurst University/Yohannes Haile-Selassie/ASU In a ...

When a partial fossil foot emerged from Ethiopia’s ancient sediments, it carried a quiet but profound implication: Lucy, the ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside ...

About 3.4 million years ago, in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia, at least two different kinds of early human relatives walked the same landscape. The new paper reports additional jaws and ...

Scientific evidence from the last decade continues to correct the classical model of human origin. Australopithecus Afarensis, the species to which the legendary Lucy belonged, discovered in 1974, was ...