Iconic 'Little Foot' fossil may be new type of human ancestor

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

Mystery foot fossil may shake up human family tree

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Mysterious ‘Little Foot’ creature could be NEW humanlike species after 3.5m-year-old skeleton probed by scientists

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...
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Fossils Challenge Human Origins Story, Pointing to Two Species

Fossils found in Georgia challenge existing theories of human origins, suggesting two early human species coexisted at the Dmanisi site.

One of the Most Complete Human Ancestors Ever Found Isn’t Who We Thought It Was

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

Little Foot hominin fossil may be new species of human ancestor

Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system ...