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 ...

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 ...

However, the discovery of a frozen human foot in early October has brought a partial end to a century-long search — and reignited one of the greatest mountaineering mysteries of all time.