‘Little Foot’ pushes back age of earliest South African hominids
New dating suggests species lived during same era as Lucy
![Little Foot Fossil](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bb_littlefoot_main_free.png?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
OLD SOUTH Researchers have dated Little Foot, a South African fossil skeleton that includes this skull, to 3.67 million years ago. If the new age holds up, it makes Little Foot the oldest known hominid in that part of Africa.
Jason Heaton