A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously thought to be a member of a genus called Australopithecus – but a fresh probe ...

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 ...

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...

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 ...

A team of scientists has pieced together how the hominid Australopithecus sediba (Au. sediba) walked, chewed, and moved nearly two million years ago. Their research, which appears in six papers in the ...