New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

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

Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men's shoe. The findings at a ...

STORY: This prototype prosthetic foot is designed to simulate the anatomy of a real human foot. :: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Researchers think it could be a game-changer for people with limb ...

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

In A Nutshell Scientists matched a mysterious 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot discovered in Ethiopia to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a human ancestor that lived alongside Lucy’s species but retained ...

The fossils themselves are modest in appearance. A juvenile lower jaw packed with baby and emerging adult teeth, several isolated premolars and molars, fragments of adult mandibles, and a juvenile hip ...

An investigation into the evolution of human walking by looking at how chimpanzees walk on two legs is the subject of a new research paper. An investigation into the evolution of human walking by ...

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 ...

A motorless, flexible, waterproof prosthetic foot inspired by the anatomy of the human extremity is the new SoftFoot Pro bionic foot prototype, designed by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa ...