Little Foot is a nearly complete ancient skeleton found in the Sterkfontein caves in South Africa that could change how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa.

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by researchers from La Trobe University in Australia and the University of Cambridge ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found could be an entirely new species, according to a new study. The fossil, found in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves in 1998 and dubbed “the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...