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A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most consequential questions: how many species of early hominins walked the Earth at the ...

A small cluster of fossilized bones from Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most enduring debates, suggesting that Lucy’s species was not the only upright walker on the African landscape ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...