Donald Johanson really had no business going bone hunting that Sunday. There were letters to write and fossils to catalog—heaps of paperwork left undone while fellow paleoanthropologists were visiting ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift ...

Back in 1974, a surprisingly intact 3.2 million year old Australopithecus afarensis fossil was discovered in Ethipoia. Named ‘Lucy’, the discovery was groundbreaking, because this hominin fossil was ...

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 ...

A new study has shed light on the running abilities of Australopithecus afarensis, our 3.2-million-year-old ancestor famously represented by the fossil specimen "Lucy." Despite being bipedal, Lucy's ...

A strange fossilized foot unearthed in Ethiopia over a decade ago may finally have an identity, according to scientists. A new study argues that the 3.4 million-year-old “Burtele foot,” discovered in ...