In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at the paleontological site of Woranso-Mille in the Afar Rift in Ethiopia. According to new research, the fossil — named the Burtele foot — belongs to a hominin species called Australopithecus deyiremeda. The discovery provides further proof that two hominin species — Australopithecus deyiremeda and Australopithecus...
