where there had been blood vessels inside Little Foot's bones, which normally would require physically slicing up a specimen," she told BBC News. Prof Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus of human ...

SCIENTISTS believe that a species of hobbit people thought to have vanished 50,000 years ago could still be roaming the earth ...

the most complete example of a human ancestor older than 1.5 million years has been found, and by “older” I mean a lot older. The skeleton — which has been nicknamed “Little Foot” by its ...

This would mean Little Foot was alive about 500,000 years before Lucy, the famous skeleton of an ancient human relative found in Ethiopia. Both Little Foot and Lucy belong to the same genus ...