Little Foot was unearthed in the 1990s in South Africa . New dating of fossil shows it is is roughly 3.7 million years old . Lived at roughly the same time as French afarensis , the species whose most famous fossil , known as Lucy , comes from Ethiopia . Raises the question of how many other species there may have been .
Little Foot was unearthed in the 1990s in South Africa . New dating of fossil shows it is is roughly 3.7 million years old . Lived at roughly the same time as Australopithecus afarensis , the species whose most famous fossil , known as Lucy , comes from Ethiopia . Raises the question of how many other species there may have been .