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

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.

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Australopithecus relied primarily on plant-based diets, not meat, challenging the long-held belief that meat consumption ...

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 ...