{"id":206884,"date":"2026-01-28T14:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206884"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:49:24","slug":"a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206884","title":{"rendered":"A strange ancient foot reveals a hidden human cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy\u2019s species wasn\u2019t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big toe for climbing but still walked upright in a distinct style. Isotope tests show it ate different foods from A&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2025\/11\/251128050512.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy\u2019s species<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin.webp",1920,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin-768x432.webp",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin-1024x576.webp",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin-1536x864.webp",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin.webp",1920,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin-1024x576.webp",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206884-a-strange-ancient-foot-reveals-a-hidden-human-cousin-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=36\" rel=\"category\">Style<\/a>","tag_info":"Style","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}