In his book Wonderful Life, Professor Stephen Jay Gould – an evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, and widely-read popular science author – described the evolution of life in the following way: Life ...

New dating reveals fossil is older than a skeleton found in Ethiopia. The Little Foot skull is pictured. Purdue University/Courtesy University of the Witwatersrand — -- One of the earliest human ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly shown that it is ...

Geochemist Tina Lüdecke stands next to "Little Foot", a remarkably well-preserved Australopithecus skeleton that was discovered in the Sterkfontein Caves and is considered to be the most complete ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

1. Introduction to KSD-VP-1/1 : the earliest adult partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis / Yohannes Haile-Selassie -- 2. The geologic context of Korsi Dora and the partial skeleton KSD-VP-1/1 ...

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 ...