What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which ...

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

In 2008, 9-year-old Matthew Berger was just out walking his dog when he tripped over what he thought was a rock. What he actually discovered was far more significant—a nearly 2-million-year-old fossil ...

Identified as the most complete Australopithecus fossil discovered to date, "Little Foot" was buried in sediments whose ...

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human relative that lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis, the species of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A REPLICA of the remains of a more than 3-million-year-old female hominid known as "Lucy" at the National Museum in Addis Ababa ...

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

Simulations of Australopithecus hominins’ anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing ...

The article ‘ A new face for ‘Little Foot’, the most complete Australopithecus skeleton to date ’ by Amélie Beaudet and Dominic Stratford was originally published on The Conversation and has been ...