The skull of the Australopithecus nicknamed 'Little Foot'. (Wits University/CC BY SA 4.0) Scientists have reconstructed the ...

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.

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

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

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of the 3.67‑million‑year‑old Australopithecus fossil, Little Foot, provides new insight into the evolution of the human face.  The new findings, published ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...

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Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...