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 ...

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 ...

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

In the dry sediment of Woranso-Mille in Ethiopia’s Afar region, a set of fossil bones kept pointing researchers back to the same question. The partial foot, known as BRT-VP-2/73 or the Burtele foot, ...

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.

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