One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is believing that you know everything there is to know. Even if you’re ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in ...

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

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

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

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

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

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

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

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