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The skull known as “Little Foot” was thought to belong to the species Austrolopithecus prometheus for decades, but it could be something else. The morphological features of Little Foot did not align ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an international research team. The famous “Little Foot” skeleton from South Africa has ...

Its discoverer, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke, formally presented it in 2017 as belonging to the species Australopithecus prometheus. This assignment, however, coexisted with the position of other ...

Fifteen years ago, Jinan Behnan, PhD, was a graduate student at Lund University in Lund, Sweden, performing a routine dissection that would stay with her for more than a decade. Jinan Behnan, PhD ...

In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Almost two decades later, Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who had ...

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 ...

Others maintained it was Australopithecus africanus, a species first described by Australian anatomist Raymond Dart in 1925 and which was already known from the same site and South Africa more broadly ...

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 ...