The Little Foot fossil skeleton has more than 90 percent of its bones intact.
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- 'Little Foot' Fossil Skeleton Rivals Famous Lucy in Age (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/little-foot-most-complete-australopithecus-fossil-goes-display-180967447/ (smithsonianmag.com)
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- https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/science/little-foot-fossil-face-reconstruction (cnn.com)
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/science/anthropology/most-complete-fossil-early-human-relative-goes-display (mentalfloss.com)
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