New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

Archaeologists have finally put a face, a gait, and even a habitat to the mysterious fossil foot that has puzzled specialists ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human ...

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 ...

A 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot reveals that two early hominin species lived together - A. deyiremeda and A. afarensis.

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

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

New Australopithecus fossils found in Ethiopia are changing the human family tree. While Australopithecus afarensis has long been considered an ancestor of all later human species, including our own, ...

Lucy might be one of the most iconic human ancestors, but she had a neighboring species that has gone unidentified—until now.

The diet of Australopithecus anamensis, a hominid that lived in the east of the African continent more than 4 million years ago, was very specialized and, according to a new study, it included foods ...

"I imagine there might be some though who will be skeptical -- as is always the case." Their argument centers on a timeline: The oldest known Homo fossil, a jawbone, is dated at 2.8 million years old, ...