The team says that Little Foot is from a second species, Australopithecus prometheus, which was named back in 1948 from fragmentary fossils. The find reinforces the belief that South Africa was a ...

Ancient foot bones from a recently discovered pre-human species, which had opposable big toes like a gorilla's, could shed light on how the ancestors of humanity came to walk upright, researchers say.

This foot bone, the fourth metatarsal, connects the heel to the fourth toe. The 3 million-year-old fossil suggests that Australopithecus — Lucy and her kind — could have been the first upright ...

CLEVELAND – Ancient foot bones discovered in Ethiopia point to the existence of a previously-unknown human ancestor whose feet were specially adapted to tree climbing. U.S. and Ethiopian ...

University of the Witwatersrand. Little Foot is one of the best-known skeletons in paleontology. Since the discovery of the bones of the young hominin between 1994 and 1997 researchers have dated ...

An unprecedented fossil foot bone appears to confirm that Australopithecus afarensis—the early human ancestors made famous by the "Lucy" skeleton—walked like modern humans, a new study says.

Little Foot is the only known virtually complete Australopithecus fossil discovered to date. It is by far the most complete skeleton of a human ancestor older than 1.5 million years ever found. It ...

DeSilva and colleagues compared bones from the Dikika foot fossil with corresponding bones of humans, chimps, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans. Samples included adults and juveniles.

— -- Swinging from trees like an ape but sometimes ambling on the ground, the owner of a foot fossil some 3.4 million years old poses a puzzle for paleontologists over humanity's history of ...

More fossils found in the area elevated the park's classification from a fossil site to a bone bed. It's the first dinosaur bone bed discovered in Maryland since 1887, the department said.