Scientists rebuilt the face of “Little Foot,” a 3.67-million-year-old fossil, uncovering new clues about early human ...

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

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.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

Of all the early human ancestor fossils ever found, “Lucy” may be the most famous among examples of Australopithecus, a group ...

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

In 1994, researchers in South Africa discovered a handful of small, human-like foot bones while sifting through an old box of fossils. They later found the rest of the skeleton in a cave, though the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...