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 ...

On the ancient plains of Ethiopia, early human relatives were already trying out different ways of being upright. If you grew up hearing about Lucy as the main star of that era, new fossil finds ...

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 ...