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n 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar region of Ethiopia, when a team member found something remarkable: an ancient, humanlike foot bone. Searching on hands and knees, the team ultimately discovered eight pieces of a partial forefoot from about 3.4 million years ago. The researchers concluded that the fossils, called the Burtele foot, were not from Australopithecus afarensis, an early human relative from the same time, best known because of the famous fossil skeleton Lucy. …
摘自《科学新闻》(Science News)第208卷 第2期 · 2026年2月刊。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。