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Painstaking study of ‘Little Foot’ fossil sheds light on human origins – NBC News
Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the remarkable fossil of an early human forerunner.
Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the remarkable fossil of an early human forerunner that inhabited South Africa 3.67 million years ago during a critical juncture in our evolutionary history.
Scientists said on Tuesday they examined key parts of the nearly complete and well-preserved fossil at Britains national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source. The scanning focused upon Little Foots cranial vault – the upper part of her braincase and her…
