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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

In the dry, rugged badlands of Ethiopia’s Afar Region, a team of scientists has uncovered fossils that could change how you picture human evolution. These finds, dating back between 2.6 and 2.8 ...