First ever endocast reconstruction of the nearly complete brain of the hominin known as Little Foot reveals a small brain combining ape-like and human-like features. MicroCT scans of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sterkfontein caves have yielded many hominin fossil discoveries. - Emmanuel Croset/AFP/Getty Images Scientists can now come ...

Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the remarkable fossil of an early human forerunner that inhabited South Africa 3.67 million years ago during a ...

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 ...

Identified as the most complete Australopithecus fossil discovered to date, "Little Foot" was buried in sediments whose movement and weight caused fractures and deformations, making analysis of its ...

Technicians digitized a crushed fossil skull with enough precision to track each displaced fragment. The specimen was Little Foot, dated to 3.67 million years, and the scan was designed to solve a ...

A long-awaited, high-tech analysis of the upper body of famed fossil "Little Foot" opens a window to a pivotal period when human ancestors diverged from apes, new USC research shows. Little Foot's ...

Learn how a new analysis challenges the traditional classifications for ‘Little Foot,’ a famous fossil hominin from South Africa. Australopithecus prometheus or Australopithecus africanus? Though the ...

Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the remarkable fossil of an early human forerunner that inhabited South Africa 3.67 million years ago during a ...