afarensis foot, described in a new Science Advances ... Fast forward to about four million to two million years ago, and Australopithecus species, including A. afarensis, were getting pretty ...

DeSilva sees this as a sign that young A. afarensis needed grippier feet. Left block of images: The 3.32 million year old foot from an Australopithecus afarensis toddler shown in different angles.

An unprecedented fossil foot bone appears to confirm that Australopithecus afarensis—the early human ancestors made famous by the "Lucy" skeleton—walked like modern humans, a new study says.

A composite made from the ancient prints (top) was used to model the forces exerted when the foot struck the ground ... that whoever left them—perhaps Australopithecus afarensis—had ...

or at least the story of human foot evolution. The bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient human ancestor who lived around 3 million years ago, spent most of its ...

Before this discovery, the oldest and most complete fossilized foot was 1.8 million years old and belonged to a Homo habilis, nicknamed OH 8. Australopithecus afarensis walked upright. But there ...

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

The 3.32 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis foot from Dikika, Ethiopia, superimposed over a footprint from a human toddler. The 3.32 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis foot from ...

These findings suggested Little Foot roamed the Earth at around the same time as the famed 3.2-million-year-old Lucy, an Australopithecus afarensis - shown in a reconstruction above. When ...

Fossils of our earliest ancestors in the "cradle of humankind" are a million years older than previously thought, according to new research. The Sterkfontein Caves in Johannesburg, South Africa ...

Found in 1979, Lucy represented the species Australopithecus afarensis and lived 3.2 million ... including the famous Little Foot, who lived 3.67 million years ago. Today, she represents the ...