Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction reveals the visage of one of our oldest close human relatives, researchers ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic jaw and powerfully constructed biting muscles. Its coarse-grass and reed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little Foot’s face, however, has long eluded characterization—the fossil’s skull was smashed in after an estimated 3.67 million ...

When a partial fossil foot emerged from Ethiopia’s ancient sediments, it carried a quiet but profound implication: Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, may not have walked her ...

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

Little Foot's skull was distorted and damaged, so researchers spent years digitally reassembling the bones to understand what the individual's face might have looked like 3.67 million years ago.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...