Digital Face of Little Foot Unearthed from a 3.67-Million-Year Skull
Scientists digitally reconstructed a stable facial model for Little Foot (StW 573) by modeling deformation from 3.67-million-year-old geological crushing and using high-resolution synchrotron X-ray scans, enabling quantitative facial comparisons with other Australopithecus fossils. The results show Little Foot’s facial structure more closely resembles East African specimens than South African ones, suggesting a more dynamic early hominin history than previously thought.
