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A biological anthropologist explains why humans can't wiggle their toes in the same way they can wiggle their fingers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

In a bizarre first, the South China Morning Post reports, doctors in China have surgically grafted a patient’s severed ear to her foot. The patient, a woman identified by their surname Sun, suffered a ...

One of the world’s most complete early human fossils, known as Little Foot, may represent a previously unidentified species of human ancestor, according to a new Australian-led study that challenges ...

Anthropologist Jesse Martin holding a three-dimensional print of the Little Foot skull (La Trobe University) The 'Little Foot' fossil, discovered in South Africa's Sterkfontein Caves, may represent an ...

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Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, may be a new species of human ancestor, according to research that raises questions about our evolutionary past. Publicly unveiled in ...

Implications for human evolutionary history Little Foot, known formally as StW 573, remains the most complete ancient hominin in the fossil record. Dr. Martin's team is the first to have challenged ...

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Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, ...

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 ...