What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

Little Foot was originally discovered in 1980 in Sterkfontein Cave in South Africa. As the nickname suggests, the first traces were four small ankle bones. It wasn't until the 1990s that scientists ...

Little Foot’s face looks like it has been through a slow-motion car crash, because it has. For millions of years, rock ...

The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit ...

The ancient skeleton known as “Little Foot” has long been a celebrity in paleoanthropology, but a new wave of research is pushing it into even more provocative territory. Instead of fitting neatly ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

New dating reveals fossil is older than a skeleton found in Ethiopia. The Little Foot skull is pictured. Purdue University/Courtesy University of the Witwatersrand — -- One of the earliest human ...