Struggling to wiggle individual toes? It's not you, it's your anatomy! Human feet evolved for balance and support, not fine ...

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

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move ...

Scientists linked a mystery fossil foot to a tree-climbing human ancestor that likely lived alongside Lucy's species 3.4 ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, ...

What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move ...

The provenance of 3.4-million-year-old foot bones in Ethiopia may have finally been solved – and could prompt a rethink into how our various ancient human ancestors coexisted. In 2009, Yohannes ...

The fossils themselves are modest in appearance. A juvenile lower jaw packed with baby and emerging adult teeth, several ...

Freshly unearthed jaw bones and teeth that were found close to a previously discovered foot suggest human relatives tried several ways of walking before honing in on one strategy.

A 3.4-million-year-old Ethiopia foot fossil reveals a new human relative, changing what scientists know about early human evolution.

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...