In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

The ancient skeleton is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. The virtually complete Australopithecus fossil "Little Foot" is displayed at the University of the Witwatersrand in ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

A mysterious ancient relative of humanity known as Little Foot apparently roamed the Earth at about the same time as the famed Lucy, suggesting the ancestors of humans may have existed with ...

An ancient hominid skeleton dubbed Little Foot possessed a brain largely similar to that of modern chimpanzees and an inner ear with a mix of apelike and humanlike features, two studies suggest. These ...

THE oldest pre-human skeleton ever discovered has gone on display for the first time. Dubbed Little Foot, the collection of bones dating back a staggering 3.67 million years is also the most complete ...

Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the remarkable fossil of an early human forerunner that inhabited South Africa 3.67 million years ago during a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Lucy," meet "Little Foot." Scientists said on Wednesday a sophisticated new dating technique shows that Little Foot, an important fossil of an early human forerunner unearthed ...

Scientists say a new dating technique suggests that a human ancestor whose fossils were found in a South African cave lived about 3.7 million years ago. That's roughly the same time frame during which ...

The Little Foot endocast is exceptionally well preserved and relatively complete, allowing us to explore our own origins better than ever before," says Beaudet. The endocast showed that Little Foot's ...

Evolution A sophisticated new dating technique has shown that Little Foot - an important early hominid fossil unearthed in the 1990s in South Africa - is roughly 3.7 million years old. "The age of ...