In new research, paleoanthropologists from the United States and Canada analyzed the morphology of a hominin talus (large bone in the ankle that joins with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneus of the foot) attributed to Ardipithecus ramidus, a species of hominid that lived in the east of the African continent around 4.4 million years ago. Their results demonstrate that the fossil bears similarities to the tali of chimpanzees and gorillas, who are...
