A strange fossilized foot unearthed in Ethiopia over a decade ago may finally have an identity, according to scientists.

A new study argues that the 3.4 million-year-old “Burtele foot,” discovered in 2009, belonged to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a controversial human relative that lived at the same time as our ancestor “Lucy, ” according to findings published in the journal Nature on Tuesday.

The team of scientists who found the foot went on to name the new species in 2015, based on other 3.4-million-year-old jaw bones unearthed in the same location.

But the Burtele foot could not be confirmed to belong to the hominin until recent research.

Au. deyiremeda had modern traits, like smaller canine teeth similar to Lucy’s species — Australopithecus afarensis — but also more primitive, a

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