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

In 1994, researchers in South Africa discovered a handful of small, human-like foot bones while sifting through an old box of ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists used a particle accelerator to reconstruct the 3.7-million-year-old face of Little Foot, one of the most complete ...

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.

(Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have struggled to ...

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