Bones from the foot of a hominin with an opposable big toe have been discovered in the Afar region of Ethiopia, where Australopithecus afarensisfossils have also been found. Both creatures lived some 3.4 million years ago, but while Lucy lived on the ground and walked upright, this new hominin could still climb trees. Bruce Latimer […]

Police have recovered a sixth-century B.C. statue hidden in a goat pen near Athens. The four-foot tall statue depicts a young woman of the kore type, with elaborately braided hair and an ankle-length gown. Her extended left arm is broken. Two men have been arrested, and detectives are trying to determine where the statue was originally […]