New stratigraphic research makes Little Foot the oldest complete Australopithecus

Friday, March 14, 2014 - 10:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly shown that it is probably around 3 million years old.

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