A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

For years, a small set of foot bones from Ethiopia sat at the center of a quiet puzzle, so scientists kept circling back to them, trying to understand what story they told. Those bones came from a ...

An international research team led by scientists from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge is questioning how one of the ...