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How A Mysterious Foot Fossil Pieced Together A Vital Part Of Hominin History

Yohannes Haile-Selassie/Arizona State University 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 one of the earliest known bipedal examples – in other words, Lucy and her species were among our first upright-walking ancestors. Thirty-five years after Lucy’s discovery, in 2009 archaeologists and pa…
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twistedsifter.com broke the news in on Thursday, February 26, 2026.
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