A human relative with diminutive bones dubbed Little Foot lived at the same time as "Lucy," another human relative, Australopithecus afarensis, researchers have found.

This article looks at the structure of the foot — including bones, muscles, ligaments, and tendons — and some of the common conditions that affect it.

Modern human babies are born with feet already made for walking, but Australopithecus could have developed strong walking feet in another way, DeSilva said — by using them that way.

No tip-toeing around it, this foot bone could change the story of human evolution -- or at least the story of human foot evolution. The bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis ...

The tarsals are the seven bones that make up the ankle, heel and rear part of the arch in a human foot. Researchers looked at the tarsal bones of 160 men and women of modern European-American ...

SAGINAW COUNTY, MI — Investigators have suffered a setback in identifying a human foot found earlier this year along the Flint River in southern Saginaw County. The same complication is also ...

A newly discovered foot bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient human ancestor who lived around 3 million years ago, spent most of its time walking.

3.6-Million-Year-Old Human Ancestor Unveiled to Public Assembling "Little Foot," the oldest hominid skeleton ever found in Southern Africa, was an effort that took more than 20 years. By Elaina Zachos ...

About 24 feet below the surface, they found layers that contained leaf points — which are like spear points — and human bone fragments.