A fossilized foot bone recovered from Hadar, Ethiopia, shows that by 3.2 million years ago human ancestors walked bipedally with a modern human-like foot. These findings support the hypothesis ...

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The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian Shaman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by ...

Measurements from seven bones in the foot could offer investigators a way to determine the sex of a victim, when there is little else to go by, new research indicates.

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Investigators determined the bones were those of a white or Hispanic male age 25-55 who stood between 5 feet, 2 inches and 5 feet, 10 inches tall. The person died of severe blunt force trauma as ...

The bone is additional evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancient human ancestor who lived around 3 million years ago, spent most of its time walking, instead of climbing trees like chimps.

THE FOOT BONE’S CONNECTED TO. . . : Each human foot consists of 26 bones, 33 joints, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles. The 52 bones in your feet make up about one-quarter of all the bones in your body.

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.