In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South ...

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 ...

An international study led by researchers from Australia's La Trobe University and the University of Cambridge has challenged ...

Scientists challenge past conclusions about "Little Foot," an enigmatic ancient human fossil, now arguing that it is an ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

(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 ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

Natural history is a difficult thing to conceptualize. You’ve got eons of undocumented progress, like the evolution of many species. Take, for example, the Australopithecus, an ancient great ape ...

After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly shown that it is ...

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